# Tagging records with the user that created them

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**Created:** [November 14, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tagging-records-with-the-user-that-created-them/6905 "2018-11-14T22:02:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![RolandoPar48315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@RolandoPar48315](https://forums.knack.com/u/RolandoPar48315)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tagging-records-with-the-user-that-created-them/6905/1 "2018-11-14T22:02:34Z")

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I need to automatically capture the user logged in (current user session) upon creation of records on a table. Basically, I want to know who created the record. No luck finding an article about this. Can anyone help?

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**Author:** ![RolandoPar48315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@RolandoPar48315](https://forums.knack.com/u/RolandoPar48315)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tagging-records-with-the-user-that-created-them/6905/2 "2018-11-15T00:19:49Z")

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Brilliant! That should do it. Thanks, Julian.

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**Author:** ![JulianKirkness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.knack.com/juliankirkness/32/770_2.png) [@JulianKirkness](https://forums.knack.com/u/JulianKirkness)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tagging-records-with-the-user-that-created-them/6905/3 "2018-11-14T22:10:55Z")

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The way I normally do this is to create a connection to the Accounts / Users object and then use a record rule on the view creating the record to set the value of this to the currently logged in user.

Hope this helps!