Set the pipeline name and description from Jenkinsfile

Question

I am trying to do a poc of jenkins pipeline as code. I am using the Github organization folder plugin to scan Github orgs and create jobs per branch. Is there a way to explicitl

Answer 1

I'm late to the party on this one, but this question forced me in the #jenkins chat where I spent most of my day today. I would like to thank @tang^ from that chat for helping solve this in a graceful way for my situation.

To set the JOB description and JOB display name for a child in a multi-branch DECLARATIVE pipeline use the following steps block in a stage:

steps {
    script {
        if(currentBuild.rawBuild.project.displayName != 'jobName') {
            currentBuild.rawBuild.project.description = 'NEW JOB DESCRIPTION'
            currentBuild.rawBuild.project.setDisplayName('NEW JOB DISPLAY NAME')
        }
        else {
            echo 'Name change not required'
        }
    }
}

This will require that you approve the individual script calls through the Jenkins sandbox approval method, but it was far simpler than anything else I'd found across the web about renaming the actual children of the parent pipeline. The last thing to note is that this should work in a Jenkinsfile where you can use the environment variables to manipulate the job items being set.