Inactive users in a typeahead field

[tibormolnar]

Hi All,

by default a typeahead field referencing the user object returns only active users (if my observations are correct).

Is there any way to override this default behaviour? I tried applying a basic filter (isActive=false|isActive_Mod=eq), this brought no joy, as expected.

Thanks for the feedback.

Tibor

[Sven-iX · Accepted solution]

That's correct - I think the main reason is that an inactive user is not, for all intents and purposes, a user at all. 

I see 2 options: 

• change deactivated users to "extenal" users 
• use an external lookup field (but then you only get the name, no ID)

[tibormolnar]

Yep, since I posted my question I was experimenting the the 2nd option myself and that is working. The lack of the ID is annoying, since the name is not necessarily unique. I think I'll use the email address instead (as options displayed to choose from), which is unique.

[Sven-iX]

Ah excellent - yep emailAddr = way to go!