Project A calls project B automatically with "Build other projects".

Project B calls project C manually with "Build other projects (manual step)".

All artifacts are archived and fingerprinted.

Project B is set to copy artifacts from project A with "Upstream build that triggered this job".

Project C is set to copy artifacts from project B with "Upstream build that triggered this job".

Using the Build Pipeline plugin I can rerun A and/or B as much as I want in various pipeline builds of the same project. Each one moves the correct artifact versions around.

I can run C manually once correctly. If I rerun it, it fails with this message:

Unable to find a build for artifact copy from: B

Repeat tries get repeat failures. If I jump to other pipeline builds of the same project and rerun C there, same thing, more failures.

If I restart Jenkins, however, and try again, it will fail once more and then clear C from the pipeline. Then I can run it again without failure. But only once before it starts failing again.

My test actually has five projects in a pipeline with the last two manually triggered. Both of these last two fail with the same behavior (even if I don't test all the way to the last project).