In NXT, Organization Records should show Industry and Profession

We use these fields a lot, building queries on them in the database view.  I would love to have them visible and searchable in the NXT view so that I can have them easily accessible by those that don't use the database view.

  • Robert Brown
  • May 22 2018
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
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  • Mikayla Fitzgibbons commented
    05 Aug 16:45

    Like the person before me can't believe its been 8 years since this was originally posted and it is not yet in WebView. Under the new features grid it says that it is in web view but it is only available in tables? What is the point of having them there in the tables if they are not easily quantifiable and queryable in web view??? This is an extremely important piece of information that is astonishingly not viewable unless you go into database view which RE is actively getting rid of next year. Please add this!

  • Oliver Talbot commented
    05 Aug 11:16

    Just the 8 years and no change on this. I appreciate that different organisations have differing needs and there are probably things that take priority over this, but profession is a key field for my company and still it's not available in NXT, having position alone is meaningless. There's no indication as to if this will ever change. How can we be expected to adopt the unified view if it's yet to contain something as (seemingly) simple as this?

  • Shannon Anderson commented
    04 Aug 16:02

    Need Industry and Profession available, viewable and queryable in NXT

  • Bryan Horz commented
    30 Jul 14:29

    We also need the industry on non constituent organizations. We don't make every employer a constituent

  • Karen Diener commented
    30 Jul 14:06

    Very specifically, these fields need to be available on non-constituent relationships

  • Keleigh Allen commented
    05 May 19:05

    The Industry and Profession need to be visible, editable, queryable, and filterable on a person record under their relationship to their employer. We do not create organization constituent records for all employers, so industry needs to be a field we can add to a person with a non-constituent employer. Also, profession needs to be separate on the person's record. Their employer doesn't automatically indicate what their profession is. We should be able to find anyone who is in accounting, regardless of what organization they work for.

  • Shannon Aquino commented
    10 Mar 17:43

    We use this for queries for our Alumni as well. The Organization name is not always an indicator of what Industry they are in.

  • Olha Zarichynska commented
    November 14, 2025 04:25

    Having a profession visible in the web view and being able to filter accounts for a profession gives a better option for segmenting donors and speaking "their language".

  • Emma Bindloss commented
    November 10, 2025 15:16

    Just coming back to this to see if there has been any progress. We are onboarding Almabase and industry is a key search field that we would like to integrate with NXT. This is becoming much more of a problem now.


  • Emma Bindloss commented
    September 22, 2025 12:58

    We use Industry and profession to build lists for alumni relations, student careers advice and also corporate fundraising. Please make the fields available in NXT soon as we have to add relationships on database view and it is affecting our ability to migrate fully to NXT.

  • Suzie Capps commented
    July 22, 2025 11:20

    Agree that this is a a big issue for any corporate fundraisers in our team - they are stuck in database view for a lot of things because of this field not being visible and not being usable in lists or dashboards in NXT.

  • Diana K commented
    June 10, 2025 13:33

    Please add (Industry and Profession) to the list of recent Product Briefing updates that need to be made. It would be helpful to have this in NXT by end of 2025/2026.

    Thank you.

  • Catherine Marhenke commented
    March 18, 2025 13:54

    This has been a major stumbling block in our ability to move relationship management to web view. We need to be able to add industry and profession on employment relationships without turning that employer into a constituent.

  • Spring Velazquez commented
    January 30, 2025 22:18

    This is critical for our communications with our alumni. It would be even better if it showed directly on the constituent record, unlike database view where it's only available in the relationship tab

  • Guest commented
    September 25, 2024 15:00

    Is there any update on this

  • Guest commented
    July 19, 2024 10:39

    This really needs to be added to help our Corporate fundraiser treams do their jobs.

  • Guest commented
    July 03, 2024 15:09

    We don't use Industry, but the Professions field is crucial for our fundraising efforts.

  • Guest commented
    May 05, 2023 16:43

    We use the industry field for every organization record. Strongly agree to add this field to NXT.

  • Jessica Newman commented
    April 27, 2023 13:25

    Are there any updated plans to allow business industry to be entered in web view, rather than doing half the job and then reverting to the database view to add the last part? Rather frustrating as it would make a huge difference.

  • Stephen Xenakis commented
    August 11, 2022 14:37

    Industry code is crucial for all of the reasons mentioned here and in the comments. I am only commenting here to point out that as of Aug 11, there are 60 votes on this topic, but there are 8 other identical suggestions on the first page of search alone for a total vote count of 166.

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