# Add and remove members

Add colleagues to a team folder with a role, change a member's role, or remove them, from the folder's Manage panel.

Everything about who's in a team folder happens in its **Manage** panel. Open the team folder, or any folder inside it, and select **Manage** beside the **New** button.

![The Manage panel open beside the Quality & ISO 9001 team folder, on its Members tab. It reads Members (5) with an Add Member button. Eleanor Whitfield is marked Owner with the role Admin greyed out. Below her, Graham Whitfield is an Organizer, Priya Raithatha an Editor, Sian Pritchard an Auditor and Dermot Lynch a Viewer, each with a role list and a bin icon.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/team-folders/members-panel.png)

*Five members, each with a role. The owner's role can't be changed and the owner can't be removed.*

> **Before you start:**
>
> To make changes, your role in the team folder includes **Manage members**. Any member can open the panel and read the list.

## Add a member

- In the **Manage** panel, select **Add Member**.
- Select **Select a user**, search for the colleague by name or email address, and choose them.

  ![The add member form at the top of the Members tab: a Select a user list, a role list already reading Editor, and Cancel and a pale orange Add button.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/team-folders/add-member-form.png)
- Leave the role as it is, or choose another. The form starts on the role your administrator set as the default for new members.
- Select **Add**. They can open the team folder straight away.

## Change a member's role

- Select the role beside the member's name. The list shows the four default roles and any custom roles this folder has.

  ![Priya Raithatha's role list open in the Members tab, offering Admin, Editor, Organizer and Viewer, each marked (default), and the custom role Auditor. Editor, her current role, is highlighted.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/team-folders/role-dropdown.png)
- Select the new role. It applies at once; there's nothing else to save.

## Remove a member

- Select the bin at the end of the member's row.
- Select **Remove**.

  ![A confirmation panel headed Remove Member, reading Remove Dermot Lynch from this folder? They will lose access, with Cancel and a red Remove button.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/team-folders/remove-member-dialog.png)

Their access ends immediately, across the team folder and every folder inside it. Anything they uploaded stays where it is.

> **Note:**
>
> Membership belongs to the team folder as a whole. Opening **Manage** from a folder inside it changes the same list, so there's no way to let someone into one subfolder only.