# System.user.getUsers(...) question

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-user-getusers-question/9948>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 23, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-user-getusers-question/9948 "2015-04-23T00:03:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dansadowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dansadowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dansadowski)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-user-getusers-question/9948/1 "2015-04-23T00:03:03Z")

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If I am using an Active Directory user source, will system.user.getUsers() return a list of all the users specified by the active directory search string?

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**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-user-getusers-question/9948/2 "2015-04-27T20:59:38Z")

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Essentially, yes. It will return a list of user objects from the user source specified in the functions parameters.

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**Author:** ![dansadowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dansadowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dansadowski)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-user-getusers-question/9948/3 "2015-04-27T22:34:59Z")

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Interesting, I don’t get the same results… basically, I can authenticate against an Active Directory data source, but when I use the getUsers() to try to get a list of all users back, it returns an empty set.

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-user-getusers-question/9948/4 "2015-04-28T10:04:42Z")

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I’m not seeing this issue. 😕 How are you calling it?

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**Author:** ![dansadowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dansadowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dansadowski)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-user-getusers-question/9948/5 "2015-04-29T20:36:18Z")

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Looks like a config issue on my end. The call doesn’t look like it’s throwing an exception when an error occurs, it just returns an empty list. I see the exception in the gateway log. Let me get that resolved and I’ll see if it works.

Dan