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title: How to create selection options for a personal data field?
description: The People module offers you the option of creating your own personal data fields in addition to the standard personal data fields. If you want to offer several options for such a field, you first create a personal data field…
url: "https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/settings-people/how-to-create-selection-options-for-a-personal-data-field/"
updated: "2026-08-24"
category: People / Settings
tags:
  - Content outdated
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# How to create selection options for a personal data field?

The People module offers you the option of creating your own personal data fields in addition to the standard personal data fields. If you want to offer several options for such a field, you first create a personal data field of the type *selection field*, *multiple selection* or *either/or selection*. We show you how to do this [here](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/settings-people/how-to-create-edit-my-own-person-fields/).

In this guide, we will show you how to create the selection options after you have already created the actual personal data field. This is how your *personal data field with selection options* could look later in the person details:

[![Screenshot Persons Master Data selection field](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Persons_Master-Data_selection-field-1024x186.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Persons_Master-Data_selection-field.png)

## 1. Call up new personal data field

After you have created a *selection field,*a*multiple selection or an either/or selection*, these fields are displayed in the *People module* (1) under *Master data* (2) sorted alphabetically in the *list of master data* (3).

[![Screenshot Persons Master dfata List of Master data](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Persons_Master-dfata_List-of-Master-data.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Persons_Master-dfata_List-of-Master-data.png)

## 2. Edit selection options

If you open the new master data entry, the first selection option *Standard* (1) is already created. You can customize this for your use case by clicking on it. You can create further selection options using the *blue plus symbol* (2).

[![Screenshot Persons Master data customize new master data entry](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Persons_Master-data_customize-new-master-data-entry.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Persons_Master-data_customize-new-master-data-entry.png)

## Video instructions to watch

**Important**

In the video, we are still talking about *DB fields*. This is the old term for *person fields*. However, the content of the video is still up to date.

You no longer need to define *table columns* when creating your own personal data fields. Your ChurchTools now does this automatically for you.

In addition, the procedure for creating your own *selection, multiple selection and either/or selection fields* has changed. You no longer need to have the database table created by our support team. Once you have created one of these fields, it will appear in the list of master data and you can specify your selection option for the new field as described here.