Pipeline manual step display

[Guy Knights]

I've started using the pipeline plugin to automate our build/deploy process and it's working well so far. The one issue I have is that when the job is waiting for manual input from a user before doing the final (deploy) stage, there is almost no feedback in the Jenkins console to indicate this.

Once the pipeline reaches the manual input step, the build executor bar disappears from the main Jenkins dashboard and in order to have any idea that it's waiting you have to go directly to the page for the pipeline job where you can see the build executor bar. You *can* see the job status icon next to the job name flashing, but since my job is in a folder you don't see it unless you drill down into the folder.

Is there any way to make this more obvious? Ideally I'd like to be able to see the build progress bar in the build executor status box on the left of the Jenkins page, and in a different colour (eg. orange) so I know it's waiting for manual input.

Thanks,

Guy