[Anthill-pro] job step reuse

[Steve Boone]

Aaron,

The good news is, in the upcoming release of AnthillPro 4, we will have Job
Libraries, and Workflow Libraries available for use.  There will also be a
script library, where you can reuse your scripts for other projects.  I hope
this has the functionality that you are looking for.  I will pass along the
suggestion about being able to reuse steps as well.

For your side question, the Environment Variable will be available one the
step has actually been invoked on the agent.

Regards,
Steve Boone

On 9/24/07, Neerenberg, Aaron <Aaron.Neerenberg at fei.com> wrote:
>
>  We had talked a while back, briefly, about the idea of having a generic
> job library that could contain jobs for reuse.  I was thinking about this
> today, and realized that the other facet of this which would be quite useful
> (IMHO, at least) would be the ability to have a library of custom steps
> available for reuse within the job setup.
>
>
>
> As an example, I find myself frequently having to build Microsoft .csproj,
> .vcproj, .wdproj, etc… projects.  As there is not intrinsic support for this
> within Anthill, I've created a script which will perform this task, based on
> parameters passed to the script.  Rather than having to hard code the
> parameters directly with the invocation of the script inside the shell step,
> it would be nice if I could simply insert a bunch of copies of a generic
> step (which could pass parameters to the script, based upon properties set
> upon the job step).
>
>
>
> I know that right now, I could accomplish this by cut-n-paste of a source
> job step, combined with setting the EV's for each step (although I'd prefer
> not to set any EV's on my build agents if I can possibly avoid it.)  I would
> like to be able to use properties instead, so that I can pass the property
> value in as a parameter to the script on the agent.)
>
>
>
> (Side question-  If I set an EV for a job step, is that EV available to
> query within the step invocation itself, or is it only available once the
> step has actually been invoked upon the agent?)
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron Neerenberg
>
> SCM/Build
>
> FEI Company
>
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