Jenkins pipeline plugin: set the build description

Question

I\'m trying to replace our current build pipeline, currently hacked together using old-school Jenkins jobs, with a new job that uses the Jenkins pipeline plugin, and loads a

Answer 1

The answer from @jjst describes how to set the build description in "scripted pipelines". In declarative pipelines you can do the same, but need to place it inside a script { } block. Here an example taken from comments on the Cloudbees article:

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage("1st stage") {
            steps {
                script {
                    currentBuild.displayName = "My custom build name"
                    currentBuild.description = "My custom build description"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}