Move existing jobs into folders

[Eric Wood]

I just starting using the folders plugin and it looks great.  Is there a way for me to move existing jobs into folders for better organization?

Thanks, Eric

[Eric Wood]

The only way I could figure it out was to actually move the job to the folder in the underlying Jenkins file system and then reload configuration information.  Which seemed to work, but I have not played with it enough to know if there is some embedded information that needs to be adjusted.  Is this an acceptable method or is there a way in the UI?

Thanks, Eric

On Friday, November 22, 2013 12:30 PM, Eric Wood <eric...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

I just starting using the folders plugin and it looks great.  Is there a way for me to move existing jobs into folders for better organization?

Thanks, Eric

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[Vincent Latombe]

That should work by moving in filesystem.

(the move feature is part of the Folders Plus plugin that is part of Jenkins Enterprise offer)

Vincent

2013/11/22 Eric Wood <eric...@rocketmail.com>

[Daniel Beck]

You can manually move jobs from the 'jobs' directory into 'jobs/foldername/jobs'. It will break any existing job relationships, but plugins should be able to deal with disappearing jobs.

But you should still be able to use the full-featured, closed-source Folders 3.x if you tell Cloudbees your email address. The following features exist in Folders version 3 that have been removed from Folders 4 (and moved into commercial Folders Plus 2):

* Move jobs into/out of folders (without reloading data, but will still break job relationships thanks to JENKINS-18028 -- it will appear to delete the existing job and to create a new job to plugins monitoring such things)
* Configurable health reports (for the weather icon)
* Custom icons
* Folder-wide environment variables inherited to all descendent items/job
* Restrict job types possible in the folder

On 22.11.2013, at 18:30, Eric Wood <eric...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

> I just starting using the folders plugin and it looks great. Is there a way for me to move existing jobs into folders for better organization?
>
> Thanks, Eric
>

[Eric Wood]

Daniel:

What do you mean by:

But you should still be able to use the full-featured, closed-source Folders 3.x if you tell Cloudbees your email address. The following features exist in Folders version 3 that have been removed from Folders 4 (and moved into commercial Folders Plus 2):

How do you gain access to the "closed-source" version.  Is this part of the CloudBees Free Enterprise Plugins?

Thanks, Eric

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[Daniel Beck]

On 22.11.2013, at 19:18, Eric Wood <eric...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

> How do you gain access to the "closed-source" version. Is this part of the CloudBees Free Enterprise Plugins?

Apparently, not anymore. It already includes Folders 4 when I tried it on a Jenkins 1.532.1-rc. But you can install that, wait until Jenkins is restarted, register, manually download Folders 3.15 from http://jenkins-updates.cloudbees.com/download/plugins/cloudbees-folder/ and upload it to Jenkins via the update center, and restart Jenkins again. It worked like a charm for me without any existing folders. If you have existing folders, I'd try it on a throwaway instance first to see what happens to these folders.

You'll also probably want to disable or remove the other (annoying) plugins that come with the bundle.

[Daniel Beck]

Just thought I'd add that 3.15 is a dead end.

It's no problem for me to use it on temporary test instances (and Folders 4 on the Enterprise-licensed instances), but if, for some reason, Folders 3.x becomes incompatible with future Jenkins in some way, you'll be in trouble -- upgrading to the then-current version will remove all of these shiny features, which can be painful especially for the folder-wide environment variables!

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[Eric Wood]

Daniel:

I have never performed such an operation.  I have installed the "Free" plugins, registered with cloudbee and downloaded the 3.15 version.  How do I:

"upload it to Jenkins via the update center"?

[Daniel Beck]

On 22.11.2013, at 20:07, Eric Wood <eric...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

> "upload it to Jenkins via the update center"?

Go to http://yourjenkins/pluginManager/advanced and scroll down to 'Upload Plugin'.

[Eric Wood]

Found how to do it under the advance tab on Manage Plugin, Initially it failed, but when I restarted jenkins it tells me I have 3.15 installed and 4.0 is available.