# How to define Display Artist Field **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-define-display-artist-field/56511 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 27, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-define-display-artist-field/56511 "2022-02-27T22:05:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino) #### Post date: [February 28, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-define-display-artist-field/56511/8 "2022-02-28T13:45:55Z")
> [@anywaysayhi](#): > > Do you mean that I could just simply type "Display Artist" in the "Field" of format value dialogue without creating a user-defined field in advance? Indeed. There are a number of threads in this forum that suggest to create a temporary field for special purposes like moving the featured artist. e.g. > [@Copy featuring artists and trim](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-featuring-artists-and-trim/16340/5): > > As you have more or less any permutation with brackets and sequence in your tags, you have to deal with every case individually. What I would suggest: First copy the contents of TITLE to FEAT\_ARTIST (FEAT\_ARTIST is now a user-defined field). You achieve this with an action of the type Format value for FEAT\_ARTIST and the format string %title%. Now apply several actions of the type "Guess value" for FEAT\_ARTIST Each of these actions cuts away the stuff that you don't want, e.g. Title (feat… Although the advice continues that this field could be removed after the goal has been reached, the user-defined field exists without the need to create it first. Actually, a field exists in a file only if it has been filled with a value. There is no reserved space for it. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-define-display-artist-field/56511)._