# User Properties

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/user-properties/14784>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79, database\
**Created:** [July 13, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/user-properties/14784 "2017-07-13T18:23:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![caitlinf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@caitlinf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/caitlinf)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/user-properties/14784/1 "2017-07-13T18:23:09Z")

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Hi there,

I am trying to add custom user properties that will appear and can be used in such a way that I can interact with them as regular properties. For example, I want to call user.set(“pagerID”, id) or user.get(“pagerID”). Is there a way to associate users with a new property to users in an Active Directory profile? Simply calling user.set results in an error.

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[This link](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-user-properties/14128/2) says that “The automatic db user source will see this and store it in a table, and it should work just fine” but I’m not sure how to make use of this.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.