# Associate category to an individual user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-category-to-an-individual-user/60029
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 27, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-category-to-an-individual-user/60029 "2017-03-27T14:46:20Z")
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### Author: ![ukankal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ukankal/32/78000_2.png) [@ukankal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ukankal)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-category-to-an-individual-user/60029/1 "2017-03-27T14:46:20Z")

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Is there a way to associate categories to individual Users ?

consider the below example.

Forum(movies) has 50 categories organised into 5 sub-categories(Actors, Actress,comedians etc) each with 10 categories.

Can a user favourite a category?

Now in the hamburger menu, Is it possible to show categories specific to user’s liking like below?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/a/3a45417eae47d12c20e408ff3ba9eeee64322106.jpg)

I could not find any related topics on this. So any helpful info on this is appreciated. Thanks.

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-category-to-an-individual-user/60029/2 "2017-03-27T15:05:11Z")

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What shows in the hamburger menu is not controllable by a member.  
But it can be based on Group membership.

For example, if I am a member of the lolcat group, and there is a lolcat category, that category can have permissions set so that only members of the lolcat group can see it.  
I would see it in the menu.  
If I wasn’t a member of the lolcat group, I would not see it in the menu

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-category-to-an-individual-user/60029/3 "2017-03-28T15:04:05Z")

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I think the closest you could get to this would be with the yet-to-be-made [“saved filters” plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tabs-for-user-customizeable-saved-filters/40953).