# Numeric badge from external source in users profile

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/numeric-badge-from-external-source-in-users-profile/208076 "2021-11-03T04:21:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/numeric-badge-from-external-source-in-users-profile/208076/6 "2021-11-03T19:52:40Z")

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I’d have to look at the code to give you real answers.

What you want to do is have your plugin add that custom field to the serializer. You can search some existing plugins for `add_to_serializer` in `plugin.rb` for some examples. Then you can wrangle that into the badge on the front end.

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