# State Tree

## Can I store additional metadata for resources within `meta`?

You can, and we encourage it. We recommend that you avoid changing the values of the request statuses directly (use the built-in Action types to do this), but feel free to store anything else in there that you want.

You can use the `UPDATE_RESOURCES` action type to change the metadata of resources.

If you'd like to update metadata alongside a request, then you can write a [plugin](/other-guides/custom-action-types.md) for that.

A future version of Redux Resource will support this without a plugin.

## Can I store additional properties on each state slice?

Yes, you can. The only requirement is that you don't change the structure of the state that you start out with: make sure that `resources`, `meta`, `lists`, and `requests` remain Objects. If you stick with that you shouldn't run into any issues.

As a convention, we recommend only storing data relevant to the resource in the slice. Use another slice for other information.

## Can I store more than one resource per state slice?

We don't recommend doing this.


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