# How to best do user management? **URL:** \ **Category:** Users & Roles\ **Created:** [December 14, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-best-do-user-management/1920 "2015-12-14T18:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![skipatrolmobile](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/skipatrolmobile/32/125_2.png) [@skipatrolmobile](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/skipatrolmobile)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-best-do-user-management/1920/1 "2015-12-14T18:00:53Z")
I now have almost 500 registered users. Sometimes I have to check accounts, do password resets, and change user roles. Here’s what I do now: I go into MySQL and query df\_sys\_user to find the user ID. I then go into the Users tab of the admin console and flip through screens to find the user. Sorting column headings only sorts _within_ the few records at hand. I then use the admin UI to manage the user. Is there a better way to do this? I don’t really want to write generic user management functionality. If I do though, I’d write an app for it. Is this improved in 2.x? How have others solved this? Is there a better way? Many thanks. ---
**Author:** ![skipatrolmobile](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/skipatrolmobile/32/125_2.png) [@skipatrolmobile](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/skipatrolmobile)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-best-do-user-management/1920/2 "2015-12-18T18:31:15Z")
Bump it up. Bump it up. Help! ---
**Author:** ![toddappleton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/toddappleton/32/159_2.png) [@toddappleton](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/toddappleton)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-best-do-user-management/1920/3 "2015-12-18T18:46:09Z")
We’ve talked about adding a search/filter on the users tab. That would fix your problem, right? ---
**Author:** ![skipatrolmobile](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/skipatrolmobile/32/125_2.png) [@skipatrolmobile](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/skipatrolmobile)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-best-do-user-management/1920/4 "2015-12-18T19:07:35Z")
Indeed, if it doesn’t filter/search the page-at-hand but does so for all users. Right now, the UI “scales” to about one dozen users. IMO, practical user management would be a great built-in for mBaaS. Also, would be a great mobile tool too. There’s a handful of use cases that might be _awesome_ to have on the mobile device. Password reset is always support ticket #1. This would be first. Other areas of user management (add, change, remove, change role, etc.) would be brilliant mBaaS capabilities, not just in a trivial yep-we-got-that tick mark kind of way, but with a capability that can be realistically operationalized with thousands and many more users. I’d simply rather code other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![toddappleton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/toddappleton/32/159_2.png) [@toddappleton](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/toddappleton)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-best-do-user-management/1920/5 "2015-12-21T13:58:56Z")
We can definitely do the filter on all users. I will push to get this in the next release. Other things you mentioned I will bring up with the team for discussion. ---
**Author:** ![skipatrolmobile](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/skipatrolmobile/32/125_2.png) [@skipatrolmobile](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/skipatrolmobile)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-best-do-user-management/1920/6 "2015-12-21T14:13:40Z")
Thanks Todd. You guys rock.