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title: "How to add board administrators using CLI"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/SUPPORT/89146149/How%20to%20add%20board%20administrators%20using%20CLI"
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This article explains how to add board administrators using Bobswift Jira Command Line Interface.

## Instructions

<span style="color: #091e42">Perform the following CLI action to add board administrators:</span>

```
--action addBoardAdministrators --board "ABC board" --group "jira-software-users"
```

In the above CLI command:

- *ABC board *is the name of the agile [board](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AGILECLI/pages/65178162/--board).
- *jira-software-users *is the name of the Jira [group](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AGILECLI/pages/65176753/--group) that needs to be added as board administrator.

> ⚠️ <span style="color: #172b4d">Use shell script parameter as </span>*agile *<span style="color: #172b4d">instead of </span>*Jira *<span style="color: #172b4d">to indicate the client's name.</span>