diff --git a/server/AyaNova/biz/TagUtil.cs b/server/AyaNova/biz/TagUtil.cs
index cbacb7bf..3244b9a3 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/biz/TagUtil.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/biz/TagUtil.cs
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System;
 using AyaNova.Util;
+using System.Linq;
 
 namespace AyaNova.Biz
 {
     public static class TagUtil
     {
+        //clean up tags from client submission
+        //remove dupes, substitute dashes for spaces, lowercase and shorten if exceed 255 chars
         public static List<string> NormalizeTags(List<string> inTags)
         {
             if (inTags==null || inTags.Count == 0) return inTags;
@@ -15,7 +18,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
             {
                 outTags.Add(NormalizeTag(tag));
             }
-            return outTags;
+            return outTags.Distinct().ToList();
         }
 
 
diff --git a/server/AyaNova/util/AyaNovaVersion.cs b/server/AyaNova/util/AyaNovaVersion.cs
index dfe82dbe..219f9af1 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/util/AyaNovaVersion.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/util/AyaNovaVersion.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
         {
             get
             {
-                return "8.0.0-alpha.2018.10.11";
+                return "8.0.0-alpha.2018.12.07";
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/server/AyaNova/util/Seeder.cs b/server/AyaNova/util/Seeder.cs
index 066b5a6d..c1a58123 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/util/Seeder.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/util/Seeder.cs
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
             SeedDatabase(slevel, Guid.Empty);
         }
 
+
         public static void SeedDatabase(SeedLevel slevel, Guid JobId)
         {
             bool LogJob = JobId != Guid.Empty;
@@ -297,6 +298,15 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
         }
 
 
+        private static string[] TagSet = new[] { "red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "indigo", "violet", "brown", "black", "white", "silver", "gold" };
+
+        private static List<string> RandomTags(Faker f)
+        {
+
+            var t = f.PickRandom(TagSet, f.Random.Int(1, TagSet.Length));
+            return new List<string>(t);
+
+        }
         //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
         //Seed test data for integration tests
         //
@@ -379,6 +389,8 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
             //allow creation of not entirely ready users (missing client id or subcontractor vendor id etc)
             Biz.SeedOrImportRelaxedRulesMode = true;
 
+            Faker Fake = new Faker();
+
             for (int x = 0; x < count; x++)
             {
                 User u = new User();
@@ -402,7 +414,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
                 u.LocaleId = localeId == 0 ? ServerBootConfig.AYANOVA_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_ID : localeId;
                 u.UserType = userType;
                 //TODO: After have USER and HEADOFFICE and VENDOR, if usertype is subcontractor or client or headoffice it needs to set a corresponding user's parent org record id to go with it
-
+                u.Tags = RandomTags(Fake);
                 //Children and relations
                 u.UserOptions = new UserOptions(1);
                 u.UserOptions.EmailAddress = p.Email.Replace("gmail.com", "helloayanova.com").Replace("hotmail.com", "helloayanova.com").Replace("yahoo.com", "helloayanova.com");
@@ -435,6 +447,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
                 //this is nonsense but just to test an enum
                 o.Roles = AuthorizationRoles.DispatchLimited | AuthorizationRoles.InventoryLimited | AuthorizationRoles.OpsAdminLimited;
                 o.Notes = f.Lorem.Paragraph();
+                o.Tags = RandomTags(f);
                 var NewObject = Biz.Create(ServiceProviderProvider.DBContext, o);
                 if (NewObject == null)
                 {