# \[FeatureRequest\] Determine user that started flow or triggered button/device

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-determine-user-that-started-flow-or-triggered-button-device/148995>\
**Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\
**Tags:** featurerequest\
**Created:** [January 10, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-determine-user-that-started-flow-or-triggered-button-device/148995 "2026-01-10T16:27:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niels\_D\_Hooghe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niels_d_hooghe/32/121316_2.png) [@Niels\_D\_Hooghe](https://community.homey.app/u/Niels_D_Hooghe)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-determine-user-that-started-flow-or-triggered-button-device/148995/1 "2026-01-10T16:27:25Z")

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Would be great to have a tag that is automatically filled with the username of the user that has triggered a flow, clicked a button or performed an action on a device. This could be used for multiple purposes: logging, differentiate actions based on the user,…

I have been looking for this, but seems it doesn’t exist yet. Should be relatively straightforward to add it I guess.

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**Author:** ![Bubiai\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@Bubiai\_2](https://community.homey.app/u/Bubiai_2)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-determine-user-that-started-flow-or-triggered-button-device/148995/2 "2026-01-10T17:19:53Z")

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is this about it?

 ![SmartSelect_20260110_191900_Chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/2/62c1d06c9de3c1ddd2248c1c6ccc0e2d13825d23.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Niels\_D\_Hooghe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niels_d_hooghe/32/121316_2.png) [@Niels\_D\_Hooghe](https://community.homey.app/u/Niels_D_Hooghe)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-determine-user-that-started-flow-or-triggered-button-device/148995/3 "2026-01-10T18:08:51Z")

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Something like that, available in advanced flows as a tag. Also when starting a flow. Similar like the standard error tag in an advanced flow.