[BUG] Team - unable to remove last member from a team

[Patrik-Br]

Describe the bug
You can't remove all members from a team and leave there only managers. There has to be always at least one member.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to any team channel that already has members and that you can edit
2. Click on "Edit" under "Members"
3. Remove all members one by one
4. See error - once there is only 1 member you can't remove them, the X button in corner dissapear

Expected behavior
I would like to be able to remove all members.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11 Version 24H2 (Build 26100.4349)
• Browser Vivaldi 7.4.3684.50 (Stable channel) (Pending update 7.4.3684.52) (64-bit)
• Version TM v5.0.5

[prabinoid]

No restriction from the backend to remove the last team member. Need some UI changes here. CC: @royallsilwallz

[royallsilwallz]

Hey all! I did some digging in and found out that this feature was added as an improvement in 2020, which can be seen in this commit.

However, I don't know the context behind the change in the above commit. 🤔

@ramyaragupathy do you have any idea regarding this ? 💭

cc - @manjitapandey @prabinoid

[ramyaragupathy]

Thanks everyone for the investigation so far! I cannot find any related conversation around this @royallsilwallz.

I think we can consider allowing teams to exist with only managers and no members.

Managers already have full control over the team, so I don't foresee any functional risk in allowing teams with only managers. There could also be scenarios where managers might want to set up or retain a team structure even if there are no active members at a given point while restructuring.

So I am good to:

• Remove the UI restriction preventing removal of the last member. As pointed by @prabinoid this is not a restriction on the backend
• Ensure the system still enforces that a team must have at least one manager to avoid orphan teams.
• we could add a small UI note or confirmation when removing the last member:
  "This team will have only managers and no members."

cc @Ashik-AD @suzit-10 @manjitapandey

[ramyaragupathy]

@prabinoid - anything that needs to be done on the backend to implement the requirement for atleast one manager?

[prabinoid]

No @ramyaragupathy , nothing needs to be done on the backend for this. When a new team is created, only the manager is assigned by default, and no team members are added at that point. So the requirement of having at least one manager and no team members is already met by default, and we should be good to proceed with removing all the team members.