Would you believe it just started working? SMH.
Ended up with COPYARTIFACT_BUILD_NUMBER_MY_PROJECT_
I guess the stars were not aligned before ...

Thanks for all the help!

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Maureen Barger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm well printenv shows JOB_NAME=MY-PROJECT-1.0. Not much help there.
> Any other ideas?
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Maureen Barger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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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