Matthew you are right, I assumed that was the root of the issue. I
will try as you suggest. Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:59 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, so your question is not
>    "What characters are illegal to include in job names"
> but rather
>    "how does the Copy Artifact plugin derive an environment variable name 
> from a jobname, in order to report the job number"
>
> I've had the same problem with $COPYARTIFACT_BUILD_NUMBER - it seems 
> impossible to work out what environment variable it actually generates. The 
> simplest approach I have found is to run a shell build step after the Copy 
> Artifact step, and use the "printenv" or "set" command to see what 
> environment variables exist (if Windows, use the appropriate equivalent). 
> That should tell you what you need to know.
>
> Hope that helps
> Matthew
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maureen
>> Barger
>> Sent: 14 October 2013 16:50
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: What characters are illegal to include in job names?
>>
>> Thanks Scott. I am having trouble copying artifacts from another job
>> using $COPYARTIFACT_BUILD_NUMBER. The job in question has a dot and
>> hyphens in the name (ie MY-PROJECT-1.0)  The documentation says that
>> anything not a letter is replaced with "_" (ie
>> projectName.toUpperCase().replaceAll("[^A-Z]+", "_")) but I am finding
>> on this job, it does not work.
>> So $COPYARTIFACT_BUILD_NUMBER_MY_PROJECT_ should be the string used
>> but it is not working. I have tried a number of combinations as well.
>> I thought I remembered reading somewhere that using a dot in a job
>> name is not recommended but I cannot find anything in the docs or
>> elsewhere to prove that.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Scott Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm not familiar with any offhand which are illegal, though I'd suggest as
>> > best practices to avoid anything that's not a standard alphabetic, numeric,
>> > or dash/underscore.  Depending on what platform(s) you're working on, I'd
>> > suggest for sure to avoid spaces, as that just gets weird with some
>> > command-line stuff if there are spaces in the job name.  It's probably more
>> > of an OS limitation on what would be a valid directory name rather than
>> > anything within Jenkins itself.
>> >
>> > Scott
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Maureen Barger <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi - I am having a hard time finding any list of characters we should
>> >> not use in job names. Are there any? Thanks.
>> >>
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