Here a concrete example. The following snippet defines four tasks which are processed in parallel. In Blue Ocean pipeline view, this is wonderfully displayed as four boxes one after the other, see screenshot.
The idea now is to define the four example steps as a sequence of steps which have to be processed sequentially and still displayed as four paths as part of the stage (similar to the four parallel paths displayed now when run in parallel).
The current solution does not allow that. If I now define sequential steps as part of a stage, the single steps are displayed in the lower part of pipeline view, but the upper part of the pipeline view just shows one graphical control i.e. the stage (which sums up all steps). This is fine, but not as powerful as the requested functionality.
With other words, such a notation is requested:
This would lead to a very similar graphical presentation as the parallel processing, see attachment, but the difference is, that the four parts are run sequentially, not in parallel. It seems to be an implementation detail whether a key word sequential is used or something like group. Looks like JENKINS-38442 offers a generic approach to much more functionality than what is requested here.
michaelhuettermann I think this is related to
JENKINS-38442but could you please provide an example Jenkinsfile pipeline script and screenshot of how it is currently rendered to help clarify your request?