Project Description Setter

Features
Configure
Change log

Features

  • Set the project description using a file in the workspace
  • Use Token Macro tokens in the file to replace dynamic values, eg ${ENV,var="JENKINS_URL"}
  • File is read and description set at the end of the build - the file can be generated during the build
  • Matrix (Multi-configuration) projects supported in Jenkins 1.426 onwards
  • Use with PegDown Formatter Plugin to format the description with Markdown and prevent XSS (by selecting SUPPRESS_ALL_HTML)

Configure

Set the default Filename and Charset in Manage Jenkins > Configure System in the section titled Project description setter defaults

Enable the plugin by checking the box next to Set a project description from a file in the workspace in the Build Environment section of a project configuration.

Filename

The location of the file relative to the workspace root
The Filename can include Token Macro tokens which will be resolved before the description is set (ie, before a Markup formatter is invoked)

Advanced options
Disable tokens

Do not parse the description file for Token Macro tokens (tokens will still be expanded in the filename field)

Charset

Select the charset (character set and character-encoding) for the file

Change log

1.2 (Jan 13, 2017)

1.1 (12/06/2012)

  • Add option to disable token parsing of the contents of the description file JENKINS-14088
  • Enable environment and build variable token replacement

1.0 (05/08/2011)

  • Initial release

Questions, Comments, Bugs and Feature Requests

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