How to add a user as Project Admin for multiple projects using Run CLI Action for Jira app

This article explains how to add a user as Project Admin for multiple projects using the app, Run CLI action for Jira.

For this scenario, use the runFromCsv and addProjectRoleActors actions where: 

• addProjectRoleActors: Adds users or groups from a project role.

• runFromCsv: Run actions generated from a CSV file.

1. Consider the following example that shows a project key TC, with the project name, TEST CLI, and has a role defined as jira-administrators:
   

   
   
   
   

2. Create a csv file, projects.csv, with parameters:
   
   

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3. Place the projects.csv under the folder, /var/atlassian/application-data/home/cli-plugin.

4. Navigate to Admin > Manage Apps > Run Actions and execute the following CLI action:
   
   

   --action run --server http://example.test.com --password xxxxxxx --user xxxxxxx --action runFromCsv --file "remove.csv" --common "--action addProjectRoleActors"
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5. Click on Run and below is the required output:
   
   

   Success Run: --action runFromCsv --file "remove.csv" --common "--action addProjectRoleActors" Run: --project "JIRA" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --category "standard" --action addProjectRoleActors 'jira-administrators' role updated for project JIRA Run: --project "QA" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --category "standard" --action addProjectRoleActors 'jira-administrators' role updated for project QA Run: --project "BUMP" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --action addProjectRoleActors 'jira-administrators' role updated for project BUMP Run: --project "TC" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --action addProjectRoleActors 'jira-administrators' role updated for project TC Run: --project "ZJCLI" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --action addProjectRoleActors 'jira-administrators' role updated for project ZJCLI Run completed successfully. 5 actions were successful from file: /var/atlassian/application-data/home/cli-plugin/remove.csv Run completed successfully. 1 actions were successful
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6. The result of the above action is shown in the following screenshot: