# Use proteus to access custom field
**URL:** https://discuss.tryton.org/t/use-proteus-to-access-custom-field/4287
**Category:** Developer
**Created:** [June 6, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/use-proteus-to-access-custom-field/4287 "2021-06-06T10:12:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@locx](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/locx)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/use-proteus-to-access-custom-field/4287/1 "2021-06-06T10:12:04Z")
Suppose I have defined a new field in the `product.product` class as
`description2 = fields.Text("Description2", translate=True)`
Now, if I create a database with the above modification, create a product, run Proteus, and try to access the new field as follows:
```
Product = Model.get('product.product')
all_vars = Product.find()
var1 = all_vars[0]
var1.description2
```
I get:
`AttributeError: 'product.product' object has no attribute 'description2'`
How can I get Proteus to access `description2` ?
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### Author:  [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/use-proteus-to-access-custom-field/4287/2 "2021-06-06T18:51:48Z")
You have nothing to do for proteus. So this error means that the customization is not correctly setup.
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### Author:  [@locx](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/locx)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/use-proteus-to-access-custom-field/4287/3 "2021-06-06T19:10:48Z")
The answer is the following:
I had installed trytond in a folder outside my virtual environment folder (so I could keep the customized modules separate, and the rest of the stuff in the env... folder).
When I opened Spyder (my IDE) in that virtual environment, I had to set my working directory to the trytond installation folder (outside the virtual env.) for it to work properly.
@ced For completeness, I should have said that I am running the following code:
```auto
from proteus import config, Model, Wizard, Report
cfg = config.set_trytond(database='test2' , config_file='C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\trytond\\trytond-6.0.2\\etc\\trytond.conf')
Product = Model.get('product.product')
all_vars = Product.find()
var1 = all_vars[0]
var1.description2
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/use-proteus-to-access-custom-field/4287/4 "2021-07-06T19:11:19Z")
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