# Creating a User - Tag relation plugin

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**Created:** [August 5, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-user-tag-relation-plugin/235208 "2022-08-05T10:02:14Z")\
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One thing you’ll need to do on the rails side is add those user/tag relations to the serializer so that those data are available to the front end. Look for some other plugins that call `add_to_serializer` or search for it in the discourse source, as it’s well documented there.

Then you’ll be able to use a plugin outlet in ember to add that to the page. The theme component documentation has examples of that.

I would probably add a route to manage the custom user fields rather than use a csv file, but if you want to go the csv way, you might want a job that reads it every hour or something, so find a plugin that has something in `jobs/scheduled`.

There is a Discourse repo called `all_the_plugins` that I sometimes grep to find examples of stuff. If you wade through `github.com/discourse` you should be able to find it.

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