# Deactivate SDK User Listing

**URL:** <https://community.sendbird.com/t/deactivate-sdk-user-listing/2495>\
**Category:** JavaScript\
**Tags:** chatsdk\
**Created:** [June 21, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/deactivate-sdk-user-listing/2495 "2021-06-21T19:32:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Michel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Michel](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Michel)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/deactivate-sdk-user-listing/2495/1 "2021-06-21T19:32:37Z")

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Are we able to deactivate the user listing functionality from the SDK in the context of our SendBird application? ([Overview | Chat JavaScript SDK | Sendbird Docs](https://sendbird.com/docs/chat/v3/javascript/guides/application#2-retrieve-a-list-of-users))

In [this question](https://community.sendbird.com/t/is-it-possibly-to-restrict-who-a-user-can-create-a-channel-with-on-a-per-user-basis/724/3), your team answered that:

> Changing ACL setting only possible by a member of Sendbird’s Solutions Engineering team. Please can you direct message me with your application id and I will ask internally if we can support you in changing these settings.

Generally, are we able to deactivate any SDK function we want using these ACL settings?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Tyler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/tyler/32/810_2.png) [@Tyler](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Tyler)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/deactivate-sdk-user-listing/2495/2 "2021-06-21T19:47:04Z")

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Hi @Michel,

We do have ACLs that allow us to prevent some features from being utilized by the SDK. The User List is one of those options. The list is not exhaustive and thus you cannot deactivate any SDK function you want.

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**Author:** ![Michel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Michel](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Michel)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/deactivate-sdk-user-listing/2495/3 "2021-06-21T20:24:49Z")

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Thank you Tyler. Can you please let me know if these two other SDK features also fall under this option to deactivate?

- [Check if a user is online](https://sendbird.com/docs/chat/v3/javascript/guides/application#2-check-if-a-user-is-online)
- [Invite users as members](https://sendbird.com/docs/chat/v3/javascript/guides/group-channel#2-invite-users-as-members)

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**Author:** ![Tyler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/tyler/32/810_2.png) [@Tyler](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Tyler)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/deactivate-sdk-user-listing/2495/4 "2021-06-21T20:32:47Z")

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Hi @Michel,

Checking if a user is online would fall under the User List ACL. There is no granularity there.  
Invite users as members is included as part of Group Channel Invite ACL.