Okta Workflows Tips #87: Find Users by Fields You Can’t Search Directly

Short and handy Okta Workflows tips and tricks. Read the full series.

The Okta-List Users with Search action allows searching for users using various fields. For instance, you can search using fields such as Status, Username, and Title. You can also specify a Custom Search Criteria query.

Searching for users.
Searching for users.

But there are also fields that remain unavailable when performing a direct search. For instance, if you want to search the Raw Output.credentials.provider.type field in the user object.

To search by provider type, first get a list of users, then filter it:

A flow that lists users, then filters them by provider type.
Filtering users by provider type.

How the flow works

  1. The Okta-List Users with Search action finds all active users.
  2. The List-Filter function then filters users whose provider equals OKTA.

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