# Find the organisation of a board

> Page: https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/get-user-boards-board-where. Index of every page: https://docs.plotwork.dev/llms.txt

For the short link /b/{board}: the organisation slug, answered only to a person the board is open to.

`GET /user/boards/{board}/where`

## TL;DR

| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does it do? | Find the organisation of a board. |
| What does it take? | `board` in the path. |
| What does it return? | Status 200 with a body of type [`BoardWhere`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#boardwhere). |
| What can go wrong? | `401` not signed in; `404` no such organisation, board or tab, or the board is not open to the caller: the cases look alike; `429` too many requests; `503` organisations or boards are not set up on this server. Every failure uses the one error envelope. |

## What it does

For the short link /b/{board}: the organisation slug, answered only to a person the board is open to. Everyone else, and an id that names no board, gets the same 404 boards.not_found.

## Path parameters

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `board` | `string` | yes |  |

## Responses

| Status | Meaning | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 200 | Where the board is. | [`BoardWhere`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#boardwhere) |
| 401 | Not signed in. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 404 | No such organisation, board or tab, or the board is not open to the caller: the cases look alike. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 429 | Too many requests. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 503 | Organisations or boards are not set up on this server. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |

## Response body

A 200 answer has the type [`BoardWhere`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#boardwhere).

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `slug` | `string` | yes |  |
| `board` | `string` | yes | at least 22 characters; at most 22 characters; pattern `^[0-9A-Za-z]+$`. |

## See also

| Doc | Why |
|---|---|
| [API reference](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/reference.md) | Every endpoint, and the error envelope |
| [Schemas](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md) | Every request and response type |
| [Tool reference](https://docs.plotwork.dev/mcp/tools.md) | The operations as callable tools |