# Problem adding company to user, making default company

**URL:** https://discuss.tryton.org/t/problem-adding-company-to-user-making-default-company/2418
**Category:** User
**Tags:** company
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/problem-adding-company-to-user-making-default-company/2418 "2020-03-05T16:38:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![mccarthysean](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/54ee81/32.png) [@mccarthysean](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/mccarthysean)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/problem-adding-company-to-user-making-default-company/2418/1 "2020-03-05T16:38:34Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Initial Setup of Chart of Accounts - account.account.type Access Error](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/initial-setup-of-chart-of-accounts-account-account-type-access-error/663/3):

I too missed the initial company configuration, because I could not type anything into the fields after activating the company module (seemed like a bug at the time).

I then went into “Party” and created a company, which I intended to be my default company (IJACK). Then I followed @ced 's instructions:

> In the user form from administration menu, you can add user to companies and select the default one

But my company is not showing up in the dropdown menus… What am I doing wrong?

 ![company](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/uploads/default/original/1X/6a83695618237848ed84841002e6c372069a542e.png)

 ![user](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/uploads/default/original/1X/3ef311709293912532f387ce843fc709e14e4a37.png)

Thanks a lot! I just want to get a simple setup up and running so I can hand it over to our accountant. My next step will be to import all our vendors and customers from tab-separated text files.

Sean McCarthy  
IJACK Technologies Inc

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### Author: ![ced](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/user_avatar/discuss.tryton.org/ced/32/1237_2.png) [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/problem-adding-company-to-user-making-default-company/2418/2 "2020-03-05T17:11:01Z")

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> [@mccarthysean](#):
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> But my company is not showing up in the dropdown menus… What am I doing wrong?

You did not create a company but a just a party.  
Companies are created from [Party \> Configuration \> Companies](https://demo.tryton.org/model/company.company;name=%22Companies%22) (but it requires a party).

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### Author: ![mccarthysean](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/54ee81/32.png) [@mccarthysean](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/mccarthysean)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/problem-adding-company-to-user-making-default-company/2418/3 "2020-03-05T17:56:19Z")

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Great, thanks. I created a company (the “party” the company needed), but the company is still not showing up as an option in the dropdown.

Everything is saved and refreshed/reloaded.

Company created:

 ![company2](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/uploads/default/original/1X/6688832456e91c7cbfbafb33329dae2bbeb596c1.png)

User still doesn’t have a “Main Company” or “Current Company”

 ![user](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/uploads/default/original/1X/3ef311709293912532f387ce843fc709e14e4a37.png)

I can even see the company in the “company\_company” table in my Postgres database:

 ![company in database](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/uploads/default/original/1X/f3fb364bbb39e2a6d2c2208128c162109cd2dc61.png)

Thanks again,  
Sean

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### Author: ![ced](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/user_avatar/discuss.tryton.org/ced/32/1237_2.png) [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/problem-adding-company-to-user-making-default-company/2418/4 "2020-03-05T18:20:57Z")

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> [@mccarthysean](#):
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> User still doesn’t have a “Main Company” or “Current Company”

Maybe you are hit by [sale\_complaint does't show an action title in list view (#9056) · Issues · Tryton / Tryton · GitLab](https://bugs.tryton.org/issue9056)