How to remove a member from Trello Board

In this article, we shall discuss how to remove a member from Trello Board. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards and enables you to work on cards within your project. It also helps determine what is being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in process. Please see Add or delete users and set permissions in Azure AD. Also, see How to Grant Local Admin Permissions to a Group [Part 1], and How to remove WDS role via the GUI and PowerShell.

We can take a whiteboard as an example filled with lists of sticky notes, with each note as a task for you and your team. There are quite a few ways how to remove a member from Trello Board. I will be showing both steps in this guide and in another blog post.

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Remove a member from Trello Board

At some point, you may want to remove a user who has left your organisation. When someone leaves, there is a need to f a user no longer needs an account, you can delete or remove it depending on your organisation’s policy.

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Method 1:

As I said, there are two steps to achieve this. One of the ways is either to remove them from the team (Workspace), or you can remove them from the board. To remove a user from a board, go to the board settings and click on “Members.”

Note: Trello Teams are now Workspaces, and all boards are located in a Workspace!

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Method 2

Alternatively, as you see from the image below, I will be clicking on the specific user (avatar) in the board menu such as IB as shown in the image below. When the avatar opens up, click on “Remove from Board”.

You will be asked to confirm if you wish to remove the user from the board.

Note, when done via this step, the user will receive a notification that he has been removed from the board. Here is how to how to fix Microsoft Teams GIFs or Images not working.

Note: When a member is removed from a board, the member will be removed from all cards on the board.

This simply means they will no longer be a member of those cards. However, any other actions on the board (e.g. comments, checking off an item on a checklist, etc.) will remain. 

I hope you found this blog post helpful on how to remove a member from Trello Board. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comment session.