# Ability to search users based on custom fields in admin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-search-users-based-on-custom-fields-in-admin/150766
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-search-users-based-on-custom-fields-in-admin/150766 "2020-05-07T22:27:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@hjalali](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hjalali)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-search-users-based-on-custom-fields-in-admin/150766/1 "2020-05-07T22:27:19Z")
Upon registration we ask users to register their “Team Name” and each team usually has 5 to 7 players on it. Would be really cool if in the admin \> users section we could search based on “custom fields” outside of the username, email, and IP Address.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-search-users-based-on-custom-fields-in-admin/150766/2 "2020-05-07T22:28:07Z")
You could get that info using [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) pretty easily.
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### Author:  [@hjalali](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hjalali)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-search-users-based-on-custom-fields-in-admin/150766/3 "2020-05-07T22:42:55Z")
Thank you, setting it up right now.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-search-users-based-on-custom-fields-in-admin/150766/4 "2020-05-08T01:17:37Z")
Groups would work unless you don’t know what they are ahead of time.