Manual Step
The Manual step creates a task for the assigned role group members and blocks the stage execution until the task is either approved or rejected (either through the release dashboard, tasks page, or via the REST API, or via Emails (pipeline roles and users can complete the task)).  This is useful when there are manual steps that must be performed in between automated steps executing within a stage.
Approve / Reject Action
Tasks can be approved from tasks page as well, but user members of Approval Role must approve step on release dashboard as there will be no task for them when gate is executed. If user member of Approval Role approves the step, then task is created and approved for any one of approver user's group for reference.
Note that even when more than one Groups are member of Approval Role, only one approval is needed to complete this step.
Administrator can approve or reject manual step.
Since FlexDeploy 8.0, manual step can be rejected, which would mean failure of manual activity and execution will stop.
When using Task page, user can claim the task to work on, at which point other users will see that someone else is working on it and they will not be able to approve or reject also.
Email Notification
When manual step is executed, email will be sent to members of Approval Role.
Individual email is sent for
Each group member of Approval Role. i.e. if there are two groups in Approval Role, two individual emails will be sent for each group’s users.
All user members of Approval Role
All email addresses member of Approval Role
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Name | The name of the step. |
Description | An optional description for the step. |
Approval Role | The pipeline role which is assigned to this manual step. Optionally, use a Groovy expression to make this field dynamic based on some contextual value (e.g. a property defined on the pipeline, and specified on the release). When using a role script you can dynamically return a key/value pair. For example |
Precondition | An optional Groovy script which determines whether the gate or step is applicable during execution. The script has access to variables and methods listed in Pipeline Groovy Variables and Methods. You can find these variables and methods while using the Groovy Editor. The script must return true if the step is applicable, or false otherwise. Â If no script is provided, the default is to return true (applicable). |
On Error | |
Continue | If checked, any failure will be ignored, and the pipeline execution will continue. |
Notify Pipeline Role | Selects one or more roles from the pipeline definition to notify in case of error. Default role members are defined on the pipeline, and optionally overridden for each release. Optionally, use a Groovy expression to make this field dynamic based on some contextual value (e.g. a property defined on the pipeline, and specified on the release). When using a role script you can dynamically return a key/value pair. For example |
Script Variables
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