How to link app data to auth0 users?

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There’s some uncertainty in our company on whether the way we can link app data (foreign keys) to auth0 users has changed very recently.

Our example is the need to store a list of ids for sold products with each seller.
Then we need to query all sellers that have a specific product ID.

Nov 2016 recommendation by auth0 team:

You could store an array of
productID’s in app_metadata (or
user_metadata, please read this doc (inactive link) to
see which would suit). e.g.

//app_metadata
"products": 
  "productX", 
  "productB"
]

You could then query using API v2 users search with the following query:

app_metadata.products:"productB"

This would return all users with productB in their app_metadata.products.

Aug 2017, our working query based on this is:

_exists_:user_metadata.products.product1

Sep 2017 support answer after query stopped working in some tenants

In our multi-stage env, this query stops working in some, not all environments.
The answer to our question about it is:

the query you are trying to do ( _exists_:user_metadata.products.product1) is not supported. This document explains what fields can be used in searching.

Status

I’m copying this here for others that may suffer this problem.
I have a question on valid alternatives outstanding with support and will update here when there are news.

cc: @nico.sabena1 @prashant

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