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  2. JENKINS-49947

unclear usage of input step in declarative pipeline

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      How is the input step intended to be used in a declarative pipeline using a separate block (JENKINS-48379)? There are several issues with this.

      • The result of the input can only be used in the current stage. Thus, it is not possible to skip multiple stages or use the input value in multiple stages.
      • input and when cannot be combined in all cases. Currently, the result of input can be used in when to skip the stage (cool!). However, if the stage is skipped because of some other criteria, the input is still requested.
      • input cannot be used inside the stage steps as a workaround because the agent would be blocked and it cannot be separated to two steps (approval without agent, handling with agent) because the input result is stage-local.

      If I missed something and the issues can be solved, it would be nice to know and the documentation should be more clear about this. Currently, it seems impossible to create a declarative pipeline with a manual approval step before a deployment when the process also depends on other criteria (e.g. the branch in a multibranch pipeline).

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          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. JENKINS-50880 Create a new option for running when condition before stage input

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed
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          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. JENKINS-48379 Input/parameters for Stages

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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            fitzplb Liam Fitzpatrick added a comment -

            I have a similar issue to fnasser. I have 2 parallel stages, one for dev and one for prod and a when condition determines which stage to run based on the environment. I want to prompt for input in the prod stage only but as the input happens before the when I get prompted for input in regardless of the environment, 

            fitzplb Liam Fitzpatrick added a comment - I have a similar issue to fnasser . I have 2 parallel stages, one for dev and one for prod and a when condition determines which stage to run based on the environment. I want to prompt for input in the prod stage only but as the input happens before the when I get prompted for input in regardless of the environment, 
            fnasser Fernando Nasser added a comment -

            Perhaps add a 'when' configuration option to the 'input' directive?

            This way we could skip the input for certain cases (like for Liam's prod stage) or even have a different input for each case by playing with the right 'when' conditions.

            fnasser Fernando Nasser added a comment - Perhaps add a 'when' configuration option to the 'input' directive? This way we could skip the input for certain cases (like for Liam's prod stage) or even have a different input for each case by playing with the right 'when' conditions.
            abayer Andrew Bayer added a comment -

            We're adding the ability to have when be evaluated before input runs over at JENKINS-50880.

            abayer Andrew Bayer added a comment - We're adding the ability to have when be evaluated before input runs over at JENKINS-50880 .
            fnasser Fernando Nasser added a comment -

            OK, just for the sake of people who look at this JIRA.

             

            How do we get  when first, input after ?

             

            How do we get  input first, when after ?

             

             

            fnasser Fernando Nasser added a comment - OK, just for the sake of people who look at this JIRA.   How do we get  when first, input after ?   How do we get  input first, when after ?    
            bitwiseman Liam Newman added a comment -

            Bulk closing resolved issues.

            bitwiseman Liam Newman added a comment - Bulk closing resolved issues.

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