# Create custom flags
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 15, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617 "2014-07-15T17:28:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/1 "2014-07-15T17:28:28Z")
We use discourse over at [http://komodoide.com](http://komodoide.com) and I often find myself wanting to “assign” someone to a support thread. Right now I often reply and simply mention them, but this is not ideal.
Ideally I’d like to use the “flag” functionality to give it a custom flag that I could create myself, eg. “needs support with frontend”. I could imagine this functionality being very useful for a variety of Discourse implementations.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/2 "2014-07-15T23:32:30Z")
We always planned to allow customisation of flags, just have not gotten around to it.
Visual mocks and UI workflows will greatly help build such a feature.
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### Author:  [@sms](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sms)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/3 "2014-07-16T05:20:33Z")
I second this, I would really like to be able to flag discussions as open / close / pending. I think between the “Category” and the “Post” columns would look like the right place to put flags. Like categories themselves, I think color coded options would be ideal. Also being able to specify the sort ordering would be helpful.
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### Author:  [@optimus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/optimus)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/4 "2015-03-10T22:59:43Z")
Any update on this 😄? Having custom flags would be great for my organization’s use case.
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### Author:  [@dennisfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dennisfrank)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/5 "2016-01-11T14:26:46Z")
Yep. That would be a nice addition. A client of mine ist looking for a way to flag threads/messages with some kind of to-do flag. So the admin or another stuff member remember to look after the thread/message.
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### Author:  [@\_vincent](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_vincent)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/6 "2017-06-08T05:17:37Z")
Bumping this because users of my community could use the flag system to report videos removed from Youtube etc. without having to type it themselves in the custom report field.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/7 "2017-06-08T05:23:52Z")
> [@Naatan](#):
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> find myself wanting to “assign” someone to a support thread.
Use the official assignment plugin for this; no flags needed.
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### Author:  [@Tgr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tgr)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/8 "2018-02-16T01:57:05Z")
See also [Creating Custom Flag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-custom-flag/52966).
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-custom-flags/17617/9 "2018-02-18T19:39:36Z")