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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.method.me/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Method General Q &amp; A</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/30.aspx</link><description>Ask technical support questions, how do I?...or anything else you want to know from the Method Team.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)</generator><item><title>Re: Tags vs Custom Fields</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/35631.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:30:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:35631</guid><dc:creator>Method_Ben</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/35631.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=30&amp;PostID=35631</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_16_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_17_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_18_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Hi there Joel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_4_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Either Tags or a Custom field would work fine for your purpose here. Although I would say tags would be a more robust&lt;span id="mce_6_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; option considering y&lt;span id="mce_1_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_2_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ou are trying to cate&lt;span id="mce_1_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_2_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_3_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;gorize &lt;span id="mce_5_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;your contacts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;by multiple metrics&lt;span id="mce_7_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;.&lt;span id="mce_8_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;T&lt;span id="mce_19_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;his sounds like a great project to scope out with our Professional Services team - If you havent already had your free hour of consulting with us, I would recommend we set that up together.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to email us at&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Success@method.me&lt;/strong&gt; or jump on our Chat &lt;span id="mce_12_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;refer&lt;span id="mce_13_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;ncing this post&lt;span id="mce_14_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt; and we&amp;#39;ll be happy to get that ball rolling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Thanks Joel2077&lt;span id="mce_15_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;-Ben&lt;span id="mce_16_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_17_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_18_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tags vs Custom Fields</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/35614.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 04:18:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:35614</guid><dc:creator>Joel2077</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/35614.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=30&amp;PostID=35614</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m new to using Method and just getting things set up.&amp;nbsp; I need to categorize my customers and leads like (retail, resellers, distributors) so I can send different emails and generate a report on them.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;d also like to be able to categorize&amp;nbsp;by industry and many other metrics.&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Looks Like tags would be an easy way to do this but I&amp;#39;m wondering if there are limitations and if it would be better to use a custom field instead?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joel.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>