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title: Custom Field Value Input
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description: Adds additional information to any fields not mapped by the medication statement API.
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# Custom Field Value Input

Adds additional information to any fields not mapped by the medication statement API.

## Root XML tag

<CustomFieldValue>

## JSON example

{ 
   "CustomFieldValue": \[ {
      "fieldName": "Laterality\_\_c",
      "dataType": "picklist",
      "fieldValue": "Bilateral",
   } \]
}

## Properties

<table class="featureTable sort_table" summary="">
          <thead class="thead sorted" align="left">
            <tr>
              <th class="featureTableHeader vertical-align-top " id="d280733e52">Name</th>
              <th class="featureTableHeader vertical-align-top " id="d280733e54">Type</th>
              <th class="featureTableHeader vertical-align-top " id="d280733e56">Description</th>
              <th class="featureTableHeader vertical-align-top " id="d280733e58">Required or Optional</th>
              <th class="featureTableHeader vertical-align-top " id="d280733e60">Available Version</th>
            </tr>
          </thead>
          <tbody class="tbody">
            <tr>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e52" data-title="Name"><samp class="codeph nolang">dataType</samp></td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e54" data-title="Type">String</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e56" data-title="Description">Specifies the primitive data type of a field.<div class="p">Possible values are:<ul class="ul bulletList">
                    <li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">Boolean</samp></li>

                    <li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">DateOnly</samp></li>

                    <li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">DateTime</samp></li>

                    <li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">Number</samp></li>

                    <li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">String</samp></li>

                    <li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">TimeOnly</samp></li>

                  </ul>
                </div>
              </td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e58" data-title="Required or Optional">Required</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e60" data-title="Available Version">53.0</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e52" data-title="Name"><samp class="codeph nolang">fieldName</samp></td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e54" data-title="Type">String</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e56" data-title="Description">The name of the field.</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e58" data-title="Required or Optional">Required</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e60" data-title="Available Version">53.0</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e52" data-title="Name"><samp class="codeph nolang">fieldValue</samp></td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e54" data-title="Type">Object</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e56" data-title="Description">The value of the field.</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e58" data-title="Required or Optional">Required</td>
              <td class="entry" headers="d280733e60" data-title="Available Version">53.0</td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>