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avsln
avsln

Reputation: 683

Adding paramters to VSTS Task Group

I have a Task Group that I created out of a set of build tasks. I am able to edit the tasks quite well, but i now realise i will need to add another parameter to the task group. How do I go about doing that?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 16954

Answers (3)

Joniale
Joniale

Reputation: 595

In you have a powershell script inside your task group. The way to trigger a parameter in your task group is to define in your powerwhell script a variable that is declared with parenthesis '()' and not curly parenthesis '{}'.

For example:

$(Parameters.pipeline)

i.e. if you use $(Parameters.pipeline) then you will force a Parameter Parameters.pipeline for your task group

Once you have done this, then you can use in your task group the parameters as follows enter image description here

For example you can create new parameters in your pipeline when you link one of the properties of other task. See next picture enter image description here enter image description here You can see the linked parameters here enter image description here

I see this useful to synchronize the values between tasks when you do not have the option to use a variable.

In other cases, i would just use a variable directly. With variables is easier, you use define then in your pipeline and then you can use them all over the tasks if you do ${env:mydefinedvariable} or just e.g. $env:pipelineNameParameter enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Branstar
Branstar

Reputation: 691

In addition to the accepted answer, if you want to add parameters that are not directly referenced by tasks within the tasks group (e.g. to use in a config file token replacement task) then you can export your task group, edit the .json file then import it back in. The parameters are in an inputs array near the end of file. You can also hide parameters here if you only want to use them internally to the task group by setting a default value and adding a 'visibleRule' property, see this article for details: https://medium.com/objectsharp/how-to-hide-a-task-group-parameter-b95f7c85870c

This will create a new task group rather than updating your current task group. If you want to update the task group, you can use this REST API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/distributedtask/taskgroups/update?view=azure-devops-rest-5.1

Upvotes: 3

Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann

Reputation: 59055

Task group parameters are automatically created based on the variables used in the tasks. If you reference a new variable in a task that's within a task group, it will pop up.

Upvotes: 52

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