[Anthill-pro] Creating and testing notification templates

[emerson cargnin]

John

You can run your context script directly in java, that is what I did.
You can then call a velocity template engine to create the result.
This bit I haven't done.

emerson

On 9 February 2010 17:43, Steve Boone <sbb at urbancode.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> As a quick response to your questions...  please see below.
>
> 1)  Yes, there are pre-made common templates.  Try using the Simple
> Notification Template (Changelog), it should have all the pieces you are
> looking for.
>
> 2)  Currently, the only way to test a template is to actually do a build.
> We agree, it is inefficient and there are plans to change this
> functionality.
>
> 3)  What you are experiencing is a bug in AnthillPro.  The work around is to
> create/edit the script outside of AnthillPro, and then paste them into UI.
>
> Please let me know if you have any other questions.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:28 AM, John Feminella <johnf.pub at distb.net> wrote:
>
>> Three quick questions about notification templates:
>>
>> 1.) Is there a library of pre-made common templates I can use instead
>> of rolling my own? I'm not particularly excited about the prospect of
>> writing one of them from scratch, and I think my needs are relatively
>> common. When a workflow completes, I'd like the resulting template to
>> contain:
>>
>> * Status of workflow (complete, failed, error, etc.)
>> * Which workflow ran
>> * Which project that workflow is a part of
>> * If the build broke, which team member(s) committed changesets that
>> were new in this build
>> * Link to that workflow's build life page
>> * Link to that workflow's test results page
>>
>> 2.) Is the only way to test the output of a notification template by
>> generating a build? That seems clunky and inefficient.
>>
>> 3.) I get a lot of extra line breaks in the template output, one for
>> each source line. Is there Velocity syntax I can use to tell it to
>> ignore linebreaks?
>>
>> I'm running 3.7.1, FWIW.
>>
>> ~ jf
>> --
>> John Feminella
>> Principal Consultant, Distilled Brilliance
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