grrr. premature post.  didn't get a chance to finish my question : -(

How would I do something like this:

node {
   def jobA = build [job: 'buildA', parameters]

}

On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 10:06:49 PM UTC-5, Doug Lethin wrote:
>
> Thank you.  This was indeed enough to get me started on how to call a job 
> using the 'build' step.
>
> What I don't understand is -- does the build step return an object as a 
> reference...   
>
> In otherwords, how would I do something like this:
>
> node {
>
>
> }
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 3:07:27 PM UTC-5, James Nord wrote:
>>
>> Hi Drug,
>>
>> 'build' of the step you are looking for. It takes a job name and a map of 
>> parameters. The has been discussion of this on this list so a quick Google 
>> should get you to more information.
>>
>> /James
>>
>> On 14 January 2015 17:54:30 GMT+00:00, Doug Lethin <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm a complete newbie here to the workflow plugin having only gone 
>>> through the docker container tutorial.
>>>
>>> Are there constructs in the dsl to define a workflow that will execute a 
>>> number of  existing jobs ( either jobs define on the same master, or 
>>> remote) either in serial or parallel, controlling the parameters being 
>>> passed, pulling them from jobs run earlier in the flow?
>>>
>>> The benefit of this approach is that we could reuse our existing jobs 
>>> while we we gain experience with workflow. The ultimate goal would be to 
>>> transfer the work being doing in the individual jobs directly into the flow.
>>>
>>> This seems like a basic core step that would be available in the dsl but 
>>> I couldn't find an example of this in the documentation, and I'm not 
>>> familiar yet with the implementation and source code layout to mine 
>>> directly in the code to see if the functionality exists but is not 
>>> documented, how to possibly write my own extensions for this using the 
>>> extensions that are available.
>>>
>>> Anyone have an experience with this that can provides some 
>>> pointers/guidelines/examples that might help get me started?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug Lethin.
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>> -- 
>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
>

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