# Filters The initial selection of users can be reduced further, with the Filter component. Users can be removed based on their group membership, their email domain or their product activity. Filters can be combined together to achieve your automation goals: 1. Group Membership Filter 2. Exclude Group Members 3. Filter Users by Email Domain 4. Product Activity Filter (coming soon)

*** ### Group Membership Filter This filter will only **keep users** if they are **within at least one of the selected groups**.

### Exclude Group Members This filter will **remove users** if they are **within at least one of the selected groups**.

### Filter Users by Email Domain This filter will only **keep users** if they their email domain **partly contains** or **exactly matches** what has been entered. When using the **Domain Contains** field, any users with a partial match to the email domain entered will be kept. e.g. adding **smol** would match all users with **smolsoftware.com**, **smolsoftware.com.au** and **smol.com**. When using the **Exact Domain** field, any users with an exact match to the email domain entered will be kept. e.g. adding **smolsoftware.com** would only match users with **smolsoftware.com** emails domains. When using both the **Domain Contains** field and **Exact Domain** field, the fields will be treated as **OR** when selecting users. e.g. **Domain Contains** = *gmail* **OR** **Exact Domain** = *smolsoftware.com* Use the **Exclude Mode** toggle, to exclude users with that match the domain criteria. e.g. **Exclude** + **Exact domain** = *smolsoftware.com* will remove any selected users *smolsoftware.com* email from your current selection criteria.

### Product Activity Filter (coming soon) This filter will only keep users who have access to the product selected **AND** have no recorded product activity for the number of days selected. *** ### Simple Filter Combinations Combining filters will progressively remove users from your original selection component. For example: 1. Choose '**Select Users by Email Domain**'. Configure the component users to select all users with a **.com.au** in their domain. 2. Select a filter '**Exclude Group Members**' with the group '**org-admins**'. To remove any organization admin users from the list of users. 3. Select '**Product Activity Filter**', for Confluence and set the **inactive days to 60**. 4. Select '**Add Users to Groups**' as your action, and add users into a group called '**Marked for removal**' 5. Select '**Create Live'** Only Users who have a an email address with a *.com.au* prefix + who are *not organization admins*, + who have been *inactive in confluence for 60 days or more*, will be added to the group 'Marked for removal'

### Advanced Filter Combinations After creating a simple filter combination, customers can use the workflow diagram, to navigate to a previous component, and create a new filter or action branch. Allowing for large complex rules that perform multiple actions.

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