Extend Any Record Type With Your Own Fields
The metadata your schema never planned for ends up off the record
Every privacy and security program collects metadata the standard schema never anticipated — an internal asset owner, a business-unit code, a reference your auditor expects on every record. The fixed schema has no place for it.
So the data lands in a side spreadsheet, a free-text note, or someone's inbox — disconnected from the record it describes and invisible when you export.
The alternative is worse: a change request to engineering for a single field, waiting on a release cycle to capture something your team needed yesterday.
What you can do with Custom Fields
- Define custom field templates per entity type directly in general settings.
- Render those fields on entity detail pages dynamically — no code change, no release.
- Persist custom values in the record itself, stored in the underlying document, not a side system.
- Keep one consistent schema per company through a single settings document, so definitions can't collide or drift.
- Capture custom data alongside standard attributes so it travels with the record on export.
What it delivers to your program
- Capture organization-specific metadata on the records that matter — instead of letting it scatter into spreadsheets that go stale.
- Skip the engineering queue for routine schema changes; an administrator adds a field in settings instead of filing a developer ticket.
- Keep extra attributes in one place across record types, so every owner, code, or reference lives on the record — not beside it.
- Export complete records with custom and standard fields together, so nothing has to be reconciled by hand before an audit.
Built for compliance
Custom fields are administered as configuration, not code — which is what keeps them controlled and consistent across your company.
| What DPMS does | Maps to | How |
|---|---|---|
| Centralizes field definitions per entity type | Configuration governance | Templates configured in general settings, applied wherever that entity is rendered |
| Prevents schema collisions across the company | Configuration governance | A singleton settings document keyed by type=general and name=customFields — one schema, one source |
| Keeps custom data on the record | Configuration governance | Values persisted directly in the entity's document, captured alongside standard attributes |
Why Priverion
Custom fields aren't a bolt-on. They live inside the same unified privacy and InfoSec platform as your records, risks, and vendors — so the metadata you add is stored on the record itself and exported with it, not stranded in a separate tool. Unlike general-purpose GRC platforms that treat configuration as a paid services engagement, here an administrator extends a schema from settings, applies it per entity type, and sees it render immediately — without a developer in the loop.
Questions CISOs ask before a demo
Can I add custom fields without a developer?
Where are the custom values stored?
Can different record types have different fields?
Will custom fields appear in my exports?
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