How to remove a former member from a team in Confluence?
Asked by Jason Hayman:

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to remove someone from a team in Confluence. Some details:

* I am a Jira \& Confluence admin
* We have Cloud
* I am not talking about permissions
* I am not talking about roles
* I do not want to remove them from Confluence altogether

The effect I am primarily concerned with is when this person is automatically added to documentation / references (ie a retrospective template) in their previous team based on outdated team membership. I think if I remove them from the old team, this disruptive behavior will stop.  

Here is a screenshot of what I am talking about; the one place I have been able to see it, but I don't know how to edit it.

![Sven_Johnson_-_Profile_-_Confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/83387i095EFD3A40B8920F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Sven_Johnson_-_Profile_-_Confluence.png")


Answers:
author: Fowler
body: I'm fairly certain no one at Atlassian knows that someone built a "Teams" feature into confluence. From what I can tell, only members of the team can edit the members of the team (I'm not clear if confluence admin has anything to do with it)

However, ***IF*** you are an admin ***AND*** a member of the team, you can definitely remove users from a team from the team's page by doing the following:

1. Login as an admin
2. Find the Team's page (I navigated via the People Menu -\> Search for People and teams -\> *enter team name*)
3. Join the team
4. Hover over the row of the user you want to remove, click the **"..."** and "remove from team"
5. Repeat the same for yourself.

The same goes for adding people to the team: you must be a member of the team to enable the "Add people to team" button

comments: author: Jason Hayman
body: Yes! That did the trick. Maybe this feature wasn't there when I was wrestling with a year ago. Of course, I could have just missed it completely. Either way, thanks so much [@Fowler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/499884)


author: Cheri Hansen
body: Thank you for posting this. I had a really hard time finding any information regarding people \> team. This worked perfect!


author: Sajit Nair _Trundl_
body: Hey [@Jason Hayman](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2774335) -   
I understand your use case, still I believe that section is there as a way to showcase which user is part of which team and does not edit them. (if it did, wouldn't it override permissions?)  
If you truly want to remove a person from that space, as it it outdated, I think you should remove them from permissions directly.

comments: author: Jason Hayman
body: Thanks for that, [@Sajit Nair _Trundl_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2133206) However, I have done this. The person in the screenshot above was in Platform team and moved to Money team. The first thing I did to fix the issue was remove all of his permissions from the Platform team page. As you can see, on some table somewhere he is still considered to be a part of the Platform team.

The trouble arises when someone on his former team creates a retrospective or one of several other templates, the name of the person above is automatically placed on the page. This is inaccurate and also sends him a notification that he was mentioned.

Of course, his name can be removed before saving, but it's a nagging little problem that occurs quite often across several teams and will continue to worsen until I can learn how to remove people from former teams.


author: Jason Hayman
body: Let me be more specific about where this problem shows itself. Maybe it will help.

In creating a retro, when a team is chosen the team members or participants are automatically filled. Four of the people in the screenshot below are no longer on this team. How can I get them removed from being auto-populated?![Retrospectives_-_Teams_-_Confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/83456iC4441168D86F50DF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Retrospectives_-_Teams_-_Confluence.png")


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