What type of data are you wanting to select on?  Could you provide an example?

Sure. If I have a custom field that says what type of profession a contact is - accountant, attorney, MBA, etc., I can only select one. I would like to be able to select if someone is both an attorney and an MBA. This is pretty standard on CRMs and other databases. I know I can use tags to do something like this but the number of tags is already getting pretty out of control.

LOL okay, yes tags would be an option but I understand your point. Thanks for the tip.

TB, what you talk of is possible on the desktop. But I have not seen tags *on the web* that allow databases or CRMs to sort multiple selections in the same tag.

Who knows what will be possible when HTML 5 comes out next year.

Suppose something similar is possible through database searches. But it is nicer to use tags.

Floydie, thanks for the feedback. What I am really trying to get away from is all the tags - we have over 30 so far and are just getting set up and have not even input a project. I don’t know what I am going to do when we get to 300.

In any CRM or database that I have seen the custom fields are set up by type - date, currency, text, check box, select, etc. also the ability to add a new selection on the fly. We sort contacts and companies by location and a number of custom fields in order to define a target market group. It is very difficult with tags to say “show me a list of all accountants in the 713 area code with over $1M in sales that specialize in energy”. When we start tracking this example project and their status via tags and we get to projects 2, 3, 4 we are going to have a million tags. It would be much easier just to have robust custom fields on the same 5-10 criterion that we use all the time.