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Hi everyone! Bit puzzled on how to create an Entity field that shows who created a customer record - i.e a "Created By" field

Create entity field created by and set it to type  list from employee. 
Set filed inline and set default as current user.

I did try that, though when I opened customer records made by other people - the field showed my name instead of theres

How do I make it 'store' the first current user it 'sees'

All I basically want is for the field to show "Harry" if "Harry" is the person who created the customer record, even if Sam looks at it, the field should say "Harry"

you should be able to use the dynamic default as long as store field is set to true

it should work for new records and fail for old one

Well it will only work for new customer records for old onece you would have update Info from system notes created by.

Yes, of course! Store Value. It's worked - as you say for new customer records only, though this is fine I think

We are only testing at the moment so the old records can go to hell

at least the functionality will work for the future :slightly_smiling_face: Thanks again

for the old records you could actually get a list from system notes of who created the record and CSV import that to the custom field,

Why add extra fields? Create a simple system notes search with proper criteria and filter and show in a custom sublist - more detail about the record,  less intrusive.