Remove members from a group

Detach objects from a Standard group without deleting the objects themselves.

note

Applies to Standard groups only. Generator and Query groups manage their own membership.

How removal works in GraphQL

CoreStandardGroupUpdate replaces the entire member list. To remove a member, you pass a list containing every member you want to keep.

This means removal is a two-step operation: list the current members, then update with the new list excluding the ones to remove.

Remove members

Web Interface

1. Open the group and go to the Members tab.
2. Select the members to remove.
3. Click Remove from Group and confirm.

GraphQL

Step 1 — list current members:

query {
  CoreStandardGroup(name__value: "<group-name>") {
    edges {
      node {
        members {
          edges {
            node { id display_label }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 2 — update with the members you want to keep:

mutation RemoveMembers {
  CoreStandardGroupUpdate(
    data: {
      hfid: ["<group-name>"],
      members: [
        {id: "<member-to-keep-1>"},
        {id: "<member-to-keep-2>"}
      ]
    }
  ) {
    ok
  }
}

Python SDK

group = client.get(kind="CoreStandardGroup", name__value="<group-name>")
target = client.get(kind="<KindOfObject>", id="<object-id>")

group.members.remove(target)
group.save()

The SDK handles the fetch-and-update internally.

Troubleshooting

Called update but nothing changed. If you sent the full current member list back, no members were removed. Omit the IDs of the members you want to remove.

The objects disappeared, not just the membership. They shouldn't — removing members detaches them; it does not delete them. If objects are missing entirely, look for a cascading delete elsewhere (for example, a Generator that owned them).

Next

• Delete a group
• Query group membership