Inactive users in a typeahead field

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
April 3, 2025
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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

Workfront

Best answer by Sven-iX

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)

Sven-iX

Accepted solution

Community Advisor

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)

tibormolnarAuthor

Level 4

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

Community Advisor

Ah excellent - yep emailAddr = way to go!

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