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MichaelTamoush
Qrew Captain
5 years ago

Re: Placeholder Users

Are you able to narrow down if your import is adding them back in? If so, is it possible somehow in the import it is adding some random character to your email addresses, or something strange like that, so it's not recognizing them as users and creating placeholders?

Perhaps you can delete them (not sure how long that process takes), then immediately do an import, just to at least see if it is coming from the import.

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  • AustinK's avatar
    AustinK
    Qrew Commander
    5 years ago
    No because no user fields contain the data that I can find. Support said a user field would contain all of these in the number form if they were in the list but it is not the case. It is just kind of out there with no attachment to anything as far as I can tell. They said it was most likely and import but they don't know for sure.

    Something new I noticed today. When using the method I mentioned where we search each field for these numbers it is clear they are actual users. When I do a search for one of the -45435345 numbers where it creates a temporary report it converts that number into a user in the report name. Instead of the report title being "Last Modified By is -45435345" it says "Last Modified By is Doe, John" for example and every record they last modified. So Quickbase knows what these numbers mean and what users they are attached to, it's a really strange issue.