Two fixes here - a quick fix for the builder side panel, making sure it fills up with users correctly (not all, but enough to make it look more pleasant) as well as dropping user search endpoint permissions to allow basic users to access it for user columns.

packages/backend-core/src/users/db.ts

@@ -164,14 +164,14 @@ export class UserDB {
     }
   }
 
-  static async getUsersByAppAccess(appId?: string) {
+  static async getUsersByAppAccess(opts: { appId?: string; limit?: number }) {
-    const opts: any = {
+    const params: any = {
       include_docs: true,
-      limit: 50,
+      limit: opts.limit || 50,
     }
     let response: User[] = await usersCore.searchGlobalUsersByAppAccess(
-      appId,
+      opts.appId,
-      opts
+      params
     )
     return response
   }

packages/backend-core/src/users/users.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   SearchUsersRequest,
   User,
   ContextUser,
+  DatabaseQueryOpts,
 } from "@budibase/types"
 import { getGlobalDB } from "../context"
 import * as context from "../context"
@@ -241,12 +242,14 @@ export const paginatedUsers = async ({
   bookmark,
   query,
   appId,
+  limit,
 }: SearchUsersRequest = {}) => {
   const db = getGlobalDB()
+  const pageLimit = limit ? limit + 1 : PAGE_LIMIT + 1
   // get one extra document, to have the next page
-  const opts: any = {
+  const opts: DatabaseQueryOpts = {
     include_docs: true,
-    limit: PAGE_LIMIT + 1,
+    limit: pageLimit,
   }
   // add a startkey if the page was specified (anchor)
   if (bookmark) {
@@ -269,7 +272,7 @@ export const paginatedUsers = async ({
     const response = await db.allDocs(getGlobalUserParams(null, opts))
     userList = response.rows.map((row: any) => row.doc)
   }
-  return pagination(userList, PAGE_LIMIT, {
+  return pagination(userList, pageLimit, {
     paginate: true,
     property,
     getKey,

packages/builder/src/pages/builder/app/[application]/_components/BuilderSidePanel.svelte

@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@
       query: {
         appId: query || !filterByAppAccess ? null : prodAppId,
         email: query,
-        paginated: query || !filterByAppAccess ? null : false,
       },
+      limit: 50,
+      paginate: query || !filterByAppAccess ? null : false,
     })
     await usersFetch.refresh()
 

packages/types/src/api/web/user.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ export interface SearchUsersRequest {
   bookmark?: string
   query?: SearchQuery
   appId?: string
+  limit?: number
   paginate?: boolean
 }
 

packages/worker/src/api/controllers/global/users.ts

@@ -189,7 +189,10 @@ export const destroy = async (ctx: any) => {
 
 export const getAppUsers = async (ctx: Ctx<SearchUsersRequest>) => {
   const body = ctx.request.body
-  const users = await userSdk.db.getUsersByAppAccess(body?.appId)
+  const users = await userSdk.db.getUsersByAppAccess({
+    appId: body.appId,
+    limit: body.limit,
+  })
 
   ctx.body = { data: users }
 }
@@ -203,8 +206,10 @@ export const search = async (ctx: Ctx<SearchUsersRequest>) => {
   }
 
   if (body.paginate === false) {
+    console.log("not paginated")
     await getAppUsers(ctx)
   } else {
+    console.log("paginated")
     const paginated = await userSdk.core.paginatedUsers(body)
     // user hashed password shouldn't ever be returned
     for (let user of paginated.data) {

packages/worker/src/api/routes/global/tests/users.spec.ts

@@ -569,9 +569,13 @@ describe("/api/global/users", () => {
         {
           query: { equal: { firstName: user.firstName } },
         },
-        501
+        { status: 501 }
       )
     })
+
+    it("should throw an error if public query performed", async () => {
+      await config.api.users.searchUsers({}, { status: 403, noHeaders: true })
+    })
   })
 
   describe("DELETE /api/global/users/:userId", () => {

packages/worker/src/api/routes/global/users.ts

@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ router
   )
 
   .get("/api/global/users", auth.builderOrAdmin, controller.fetch)
-  .post("/api/global/users/search", auth.builderOrAdmin, controller.search)
+  // search can be used by any user now, to retrieve users for user column
+  .post("/api/global/users/search", controller.search)
   .delete("/api/global/users/:id", auth.adminOnly, controller.destroy)
   .get(
     "/api/global/users/count/:appId",

packages/worker/src/tests/api/users.ts

@@ -134,13 +134,19 @@ export class UserAPI extends TestAPI {
       .expect(status ? status : 200)
   }
 
-  searchUsers = ({ query }: { query?: SearchQuery }, status = 200) => {
+  searchUsers = (
-    return this.request
+    { query }: { query?: SearchQuery },
+    opts?: { status?: number; noHeaders?: boolean }
+  ) => {
+    const req = this.request
       .post("/api/global/users/search")
-      .set(this.config.defaultHeaders())
       .send({ query })
       .expect("Content-Type", /json/)
-      .expect(status ? status : 200)
+      .expect(opts?.status ? opts.status : 200)
+    if (!opts?.noHeaders) {
+      req.set(this.config.defaultHeaders())
+    }
+    return req
   }
 
   getUser = (userId: string, opts?: TestAPIOpts) => {