Answers.Body: <p>Did you make a Custom Field on Contribution of type -any- or did you narrow it down to specific financial type(s)? If that's the case you must select the Type first when entering a new Contribution - to make the Field appear;</p>
  
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Answers.Text: That's exactly it. Thank you.  I expect to be asking a number of "easy" questions as I am just starting to work with CiviCRM
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Body: <p>We are planning on migrating from our current membership database to CiviCRM. I am starting to experiment with the system to see how to implement things.
  I am using version 4.7.17 on WordPress. 
  We want to specify whether a mailed donation came to the station or to our PO Box. I set up a custom data field for contributions (alphanumeric text). 
  It's active and searchable but when I go to the New Contribution window, it doesn't appear. 
  Have I missed something ? </p>
  
  <p>(I know alphanumeric text may not be the best choice, but for now I simply want to figure out why it is not appearing)</p>
  
Tags: <civicontribute><custom-fields>
Title: Contribution custom field not appearing in New Contribution window
ThreadText: # Contribution custom field not appearing in New Contribution window
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-13)
  
  We are planning on migrating from our current membership database to CiviCRM. I am starting to experiment with the system to see how to implement things.
  I am using version 4.7.17 on WordPress.
  We want to specify whether a mailed donation came to the station or to our PO Box. I set up a custom data field for contributions (alphanumeric text).
  It's active and searchable but when I go to the New Contribution window, it doesn't appear.
  Have I missed something ?
  
  (I know alphanumeric text may not be the best choice, but for now I simply want to figure out why it is not appearing)
  
  **Tags:** civicontribute, custom-fields
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-04-13. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  Did you make a Custom Field on Contribution of type -any- or did you narrow it down to specific financial type(s)? If that's the case you must select the Type first when entering a new Contribution - to make the Field appear;
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: That's exactly it. Thank you.  I expect to be asking a number of "easy" questions as I am just starting to work with CiviCRM  
  > **username_1**: This is a good place to do so - and also a good place to search if you run into any issues.  
  
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