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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/8292/appian-function-isuseractive</link><description>Hi, We are using Appian 16.1 and I have noticed that isuseractive function is taking longer time to execute and it’s creating a performance issue. Do we have any alternative function for isuseractive or any work around? -Ankit OriginalPostID-231122</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/151194?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:48:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:3890850a-fbc5-4d36-abdb-777b47344194</guid><dc:creator>saket kumar</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks &lt;a href="/members/ankitb703441"&gt;ankitb703441&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/36289?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:41:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:db01fac1-7b21-47d5-92c8-85721e26772c</guid><dc:creator>ankitb703441</dc:creator><description>Thanks All, isusernametaken worked for me, its much faster then isuseractive.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/36280?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 09:07:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2931855b-2b88-483d-8842-a7b5fa18cf4b</guid><dc:creator>venkateshs329</dc:creator><description>#ankitb: Please try below code it might helpful to you.&lt;br /&gt;if(user(ri!username,&amp;quot;status&amp;quot;)=1,&amp;quot;UserActive&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;UserDeactivte&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;Note;ri!username type is user.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/36278?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:19:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:89b0069e-6e08-4932-960f-6fa88150d07b</guid><dc:creator>abhi.jana</dc:creator><description>if(isusernametaken(ri!user),user(ri!user,&amp;quot;status&amp;quot;),&amp;quot;User does not exist&amp;quot;)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/36277?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:13:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:18fb2cbf-1643-402a-828a-c4da5d466f32</guid><dc:creator>abhi.jana</dc:creator><description>What about isusernametaken()?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/36276?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:01:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:9841c0a0-3138-44cc-85e7-1c19e47ede62</guid><dc:creator>ankitb703441</dc:creator><description>Thanks.&lt;br /&gt;Yes I have tried using this function. But it don&amp;#39;t work when user is deactivated or user id is wrong. It throw an invalid user exception. but the isuseractive worked fine in that case stating user is not active or not available.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Appian function isuseractive</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/36275?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 06:27:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:9bcc8444-f4f7-4341-9401-7847a8ceee8d</guid><dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator><description>You can try using the built in user() function. User(appianUser, &amp;quot;status&amp;quot;) returns 1 for active and 0 for deactivated.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>