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# View, Manage, or Remove Users

Site administrators can manage a site’s users such as adding and removing users, setting the groups they’re members of, setting their site roles, and so on.

View and manage users on a site

Sign in to a site as an site administrator and then select Users. On this page you can do any of the following to manage users:

- Set group membership, set site role, or remove the user from the site. If you’ve configured the site for single sign-on (SSO), you can set the selected users’ authentication method.
    
    ![The Site Users list with Site Role highlighted in the actions menu.](/tableau/next/en-us/online/en-us/Img/user_site_view_settings_cloud.png)
- Select a user's name to see details about them, such as content they own, views they subscribe to, and their account settings.
    
    The user's Settings page is available to you when a user is a member of only the sites that you are a site admin of. Under Account, you can update the email address where the user receives notifications. The email address is used for notifications purposes only and not used for sign-in. For security purposes, you can only update the email address of a user who is a member of only one site.

Search for users (or groups)

To search for a specific user (or group), use the filter toggle in the upper right to display the search box and site role filter. Then use the search box or filters to find the users (or group) you want. The search operation checks the display name and user name attributes.

The search box supports the wildcard (\*) character. For example, searching for `John*` will return all names that start with _John_.

In addition, you can do the following:

- Use the wildcard character (\*) with a special character to search for names that contain special characters. For example, `sync-*` or `*sync-*`.
- Use the wildcard character (\*) with AND or OR conditions when filtering user names. For example, searching for `*aw* AND John*` returns all users whose user names contain _aw_ and whose names start with _John_.
    - Note that the wildcard with AND or OR is only available when filtering user names, not display names.
- When searching for names with diacritics, names must be entered with exact diacritics to return relevant results. For example, to search for _José_, enter `José`. Searching for `Jose` will not return results.

![A search bar and dropdown menus for filtering by site role.](/tableau/next/en-us/online/en-us/Img/user_view_search.png)

Remove users from a site

You can remove a user only if the user does not own any content (projects, workbooks, views, data sources, collections, or data alerts for example). If you attempt to remove a user who owns content, the user site role will be set to **Unlicensed**, but the user will not be removed.

If the default All Users group has enabled Grant site role on sign in, that user's content must be reassigned to another user or removed before they can be unlicensed or removed. For more information on Grant role on sign in, see [Removing users affected by Grant role on sign in](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-us/grant_role.htm#remove). For more information on changing content ownership, see [Manage Content Ownership](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-us/owner.htm)

**Note:** On Tableau Server, when an administrator removes a user from a site (and the user belongs only to that one site), the user is also deleted from the server.

1. Sign in to a site as an administrator and go to the Users page. Select one or more users to remove, and then select Actions > Remove from Site.
    
    ![The Site Users list with the actions menu.](/tableau/next/en-us/online/en-us/Img/user_site_remove_server.png)
2. Click **Remove Users** button in the confirmation dialog.