[JIRA] [core] (JENKINS-31209) Make the length of the build description display user settable

[nneul@neulinger.org (JIRA)]

Nathan Neulinger created an issue

Jenkins / JENKINS-31209 Make the length of the build description display user settable Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Components: core Created: 28/Oct/15 2:12 AM Priority: Minor Reporter: Nathan Neulinger Right now, the build description gets truncated with ... at the end if too long. Would like to see two options in the configure jenkins screen: 1. Truncate build description at (X) Beginning ( ) End 2. Maximum length of build description to show in build history [ ] Add Comment

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[dbeck@cloudbees.com (JIRA)]

Daniel Beck commented on JENKINS-31209

Re: Make the length of the build description display user settable To be honest, this looks like the kind of option mostly resulting in cluttered config pages that people complain about.

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[t.hirsch@epages.com (JIRA)]

Thomas Hirsch commented on JENKINS-31209

Re: Make the length of the build description display user settable

+1 for giving an option to not truncate the description. The problem here is that this description gets truncated on the server side. I strongly argue that this is something that should be handled exclusively by CSS, as doing so would completely cover this issue (and many others). Also I cannot see why this would need to be truncated in the first place. If the user puts in a lengthy description there, he probably has a rather valid reason to do so. In my case, it is the description of a MultiJob, and I want to display the branch names of two subprojects, as well as a URL that points to the QA system where the projects got deployed to.

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[beermichael@siemens.com (JIRA)]

Beer Michael commented on JENKINS-31209

Re: Make the length of the build description display user settable

+1 I use HTML code in the build description. The problem is that it uses raw text for the truncation, not the "real" used space. It would be great if we can modify the lenght until the truncation.

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[beermichael@siemens.com (JIRA)]

Beer Michael edited a comment on JENKINS-31209

Re: Make the length of the build description display user settable

+1 I use HTML code in the build description. The problem is that it uses raw text for the truncation, not the "real" used space. It would be great if we can modify the lenght until of the truncation build description .

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[martyscheil+jenkins@gmail.com (JIRA)]

Marty S commented on JENKINS-31209

Re: Make the length of the build description display user settable

I just ran into this myself. Also I think that HTML code such as links counts towards the maximum, which is annoying since I like to put quick-links into the description.

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[marat@slonopotamus.org (JIRA)]

Marat Radchenko resolved as Duplicate

Fixed by https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/4209 and should be released in 2.198 next week. History widget no longer truncates build description.

Jenkins / JENKINS-31209

Make the length of the build description display user settable

Change By: Marat Radchenko Status: Open Resolved Resolution: Duplicate Released As: 2.198

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