# Find workspace member

Source: https://neondeerdata.com/docs/platform/automations/steps/find-workspace-member/

Step · Lookup and record data

Finds a workspace member by ID or email address.

## Inputs

| Label                      | Key                   | Type       | Required | Notes                                                        |
| -------------------------- | --------------------- | ---------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Workspace member ID        | `workspace_member_id` | Text       | No       |                                                              |
| Email                      | `email`               | Text       | No       |                                                              |
| Case-sensitive email match | `case_sensitive`      | True/false | No       | Default off.                                                 |
| Normalize email            | `normalize_email`     | True/false | No       | Default off. “Treat dot and plus email aliases as the same.” |

## Outputs

| Label               | Key                   | Type   | Always set | Notes                                                                                                              |
| ------------------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Member              | `member`              | Actor  | No         |                                                                                                                    |
| Workspace member ID | `workspace_member_id` | Text   | No         |                                                                                                                    |
| Count               | `count`               | Number | Yes        | 0 or 1.                                                                                                            |
| Member details      | `member_details`      | Group  | No         | Access level, Avatar URL, Email, First name, Full name, Last name. Unknown access levels are reported as `member`. |
| Normalized email    | `normalized_email`    | Text   | No         | Present whenever an email was given.                                                                               |

## How it behaves

- By ID: reads that member. By email: lists all members (100 per page, up to 50 pages) and compares normalized emails. With both: the member found by ID must also match the email.
- Normalization: trims, always lowercases the domain, lowercases the local part unless Case-sensitive email match is on. With Normalize email, removes a `+tag` and every dot from the local part, for every domain.
- No input, a malformed ID, a malformed email or no match gives Count 0, not an error.

## Errors

For errors that every step can return, see [Troubleshooting](https://neondeerdata.com/docs/platform/automations/troubleshooting/).

## Example

Match the email on an inbound form to the workspace member who owns the lead.

**Example inputs**

| Input           | Value                  |
| --------------- | ---------------------- |
| Email           | Maya.Chen+crm@acme.com |
| Normalize email | On                     |

**Example outputs**

| Output              | Value                                           |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| Member              | Maya Chen (workspace member)                    |
| Workspace member ID | 8b9c0d1e-2f3a-4b4c-9d5e-6f7a8b9c0d1e            |
| Count               | 1                                               |
| Member details      | Full name: Maya Chen; Email: maya.chen@acme.com |
| Normalized email    | mayachen@acme.com                               |

Normalize email drops the `+crm` tag and the dot, so it matches the member whose email is maya.chen@acme.com. No match gives Count 0, not an error.