Re: How to use global parameters in a build that is part of a build pipeline

2014-06-09 Thread Eric Wood
Ok, the use of global varaibles/parameters is pretty simple, merely set them in the  manage jenkins -configure system-Global Properties- environment variables and set a series of name/value pairs.  In the jenkins job I reference them in the ANT properties box as name=${Global_property_1}.  In

Re: How to use global parameters in a build that is part of a build pipeline

2014-06-06 Thread Eric Wood
I do not think tha the build pipeline uses build flows.  Also, when I look at teh build flow plugin, they state that it is a POC plugin and it seems tha the developers are moving on and suggest the use of the workflow plugin.  It seems that there has to be some way to set global variables and

Re: How to use global parameters in a build that is part of a build pipeline

2014-06-05 Thread Eric Wood
Mike: Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I follow the response.  When you mention Build Flows are you talking about build pipeline creating using the build pipeline plugin?  Also, who are you setting the values that you pass in? Thanks, Eric On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 3:34 PM, Mike

Re: How to use global parameters in a build that is part of a build pipeline

2014-06-05 Thread Mike Chmielewski
I'm using the build flow plugin, which I believe is used by the build pipeline. Basically my groovy script that orchestrates the build flow passes in some variables to the build calls in build flow. I don't have to define the parameters on the build job that I am calling with the parameters. On

How to use global parameters in a build that is part of a build pipeline

2014-06-04 Thread Eric Wood
I have several jenkins jobs that I want to use global variables.  The only way I have seen to do this is to parameterize my build and to set a global parameter string using the plugin documented here: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Global+Variable+String+Parameter+Plugin The issue

Re: How to use global parameters in a build that is part of a build pipeline

2014-06-04 Thread Mike Chmielewski
For Build Flows, I have passed in arbitrary variables not defined on a job in the flow, and they are picked up correctly. On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Eric Wood eric.w...@rocketmail.com wrote: I have several jenkins jobs that I want to use global variables. The only way I have seen to do