Thanks a lot! That completely unblocks me. Your solution works for
everything other than an issue I was having with the Custom Workspace
location we are defining. That being said I realize we were using that to
workaround an issue that we shouldn't be working around to begin with.
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:17:55 PM UTC-7, giuliano wrote:
>
> Not sure this will work. But you might try the "Pre SCM BuildStep
> Plugin."
>
> - Check "Run buildstep before SCM runs"
> - Add an "Execute shell" buildstep:
> echo >job.properties
> echo "TEST_RUN_JOBNAME=${TEST_RUN.jobName}" >>job.properties
> echo "TEST_RUN_NUMBER=${TEST_RUN.number}" >>jop.properties
> - Add an "Inject environment variables" step:
> Properties File Path: job.properties
>
> With luck, you can now access your variables as ${TEST_RUN_JOBNAME}
> and ${TEST_RUN_NUMBER}
>
> giuliano
>
> On May 30, 8:03 pm, OSUBeavBane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm a little bit of a noob to Jenkins and I'm having trouble
> > discribing this so bear with me.
> >
> > For a while now we've been using Jenkins as a launching platform for
> > our QA testing. We have a virtual machine that we revert and then we
> > install various products on the machine. To give QA members
> > flexibility the job that manages this has a few "Choice" parameters
> > that can be used to select "Product" and "Version". Farther down on
> > the configure page in "Set Environment Variables" I access the
> > parameter as follows ${Product} and ${Version}.
> >
> > In active releases we have always just tested the latest build but my
> > company now wants further granularity to test individual builds. I've
> > been playing with the "Run" parameter and I can view/select an
> > individual build and when I do this I can see the variable in the
> > console displayed as follows:
> >
> > TEST_RUN=http://orl-reg-vsbld23:8080/hudson/job/Temp_Product/17/
> > TEST_RUN.jobName=Temp_Product
> > TEST_RUN.number=17
> >
> > I've been able to use "TEST_RUN" as ${TEST_RUN} but I actually don't
> > want the URL I want the other 2 variables and I haven't had any luck
> > accessing them. ${TEST_RUN.jobName} and ${TEST_RUN.number} don't seem
> > to work and I've tried about 20 other ways to access these variables.
> >
> > Can anyone out there explain to me how to do this?
> >
> > Any help or links to educational resources would be greatly
> > appreciated.
