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title: Custom Lists
description: "### Creating Custom Lists Custom lists can be created by admin on a portal. Custom lists can not be updated from Templatise add-in, only in Portal. **Examples of lists:** marital status, list of countries, employment status. ### Types of Custom…"
url: "https://templatise.it/docs/portal-custom-lists/"
updated: "2024-05-31"
category: Management
---

# Custom Lists

### Creating Custom Lists

Custom lists can be created by admin on a portal.
 Custom lists can not be updated from Templatise add-in, only in Portal.

**Examples of lists:** marital status, list of countries, employment status.

### Types of Custom Lists

You can create two types of custom lists: **Key-Value** list and only **Key** list.

1. **Key Lists:** These lists contain single values that will be directly inserted into the document.
 2. **Key-Value Lists:** These lists allow you to define a user-friendly label (key) that will be displayed, and a corresponding value that will be inserted into the document.

### How to create a Custom List

1. Go to**[portal](https://portal-frontend.qa.app.templatise.it/admin/custom-lists)** as an administrator.
 2. Click **Add new list** button.
 3. **Choose name of the list** - this will be visible only in portal.

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-30-1024x161.png)

4. **Сreate a specific language version of the list**.

Each list can have multiple language versions.
 When [creating Single- / Multiselect variable in Word add-in](https://templatise.it/docs/single-multiselect/) language version from the list will be matched with language version from the template. If there is no match, default language version of the list will be used.

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Group-17-1-1024x272.png)

5. **Add list values.**

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-33-1024x374.png)

Read more about [how to use Custom Lists in add-in](https://templatise.it/docs/single-multiselect/).