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Hello, I wonder how to manage Mendix users in our company efficiently. Let’s say that one of our user  leaves the company or changes the name or e-mail address. This has impact on other systems as well – like on Mendix. In case that a person X has left the company, we can only remove his account manually by checking all the places where he was listed and delete him/her.  Given the number of applications we have and given the number of users we have (theoretically 140K ) this is a challending task. I have tried to explore the API for User Management. The problem I have is, it gives me only IDs, it will not give me the names or e-mail adresses so I cannot match it to the regular addressbook to verify if the account is still valid.  I also cannot change anything related to these users – except for setting it as “active/inactive”. https://docs.mendix.com/apidocs-mxsdk/apidocs/user-management-api Little bit promissing was the procedure to lookup for valid ID based on the e-mail address:  https://platform.mendix.com/api/1/users/by-email/<emailAddress> Theoretically I could match it also from the other way around. I would get a list of 140K users and loop over it and call this for every user /api/1/users/by-email/ to see if the user is listed or not. I can imagine Mendix cloud may not like it and it would be a bit slow.  But still this would not leed to desired effect. Sure I could narrow it down to the recent changes (people who left in last 2-3 monts) but even that can be still high number and It would help with e-mail address changes. Is there any other better way how to programatically manage these user accounts? 

asked 2020-01-22

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