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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Minor
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Many first time users of Jenkins Pipeline do not realize that the Pipeline Syntax snippet generator will generate Pipeline steps using the values they provide. They mistakenly think that they need to read the Pipeline steps reference and create the Pipeline entirely from the Pipeline steps reference documentation.
We can significantly reduce user frustration if we frequently refer them to the Pipeline Syntax snippet generator while describing Pipeline steps.
A possible fix for this is to add snippet generator hints to the Pipeline help so that readers will be repeatedly encouraged to use the Pipeline snippet generator on their Jenkins installation for the best experience with Pipeline