Build User Vars Plugin

In my opinion, it is always difficult to have again another plugin for this field.
I suggest you should look at the envinject plugin and extend it with your plugin. EnvInject plugin eanbles you to manage injected variables and keep track of variables for each build. Your plugin will extend it by adding your specific variables and could have all features provided by the envinject plugin.

Extending EnvInject plugin can be done for example with the shared-objects plugin.

Let me know if you need help.

Hi Gregory,

thx for pointing out. Agreed with you. Before implementing this I looked through EnvInject, hoping that it provides such fields.

I'll have a look.

We run into JENKINS-12528 using started-by-envvar. Can this plugin cope with the situation?

@Gavriil Konovalenko (Plugin Implementer): Does this here plugin fully replace Started-By Environment Variable Plugin? (Apart from the different var-names of course?)

Hi,

The BUILD_USER variable is unset on downstream Solaris jobs for some reason. The initial job is on Solaris 10 which triggers jobs on Solaris 9, Solaris 10 (different host), Linux 32, Linux 64, HP Itanium, HP PA-RISC. The BUILD_USER variable is unset on the downstream Solaris 9 and 10 jobs. I've not checked the other downstream jobs (e.g. Linux 32) to see if BUILD_USER is unset.
Thanks !

Thanks for your useful plugin which IMHO is truly a missing feature in Jenkins ;-)

It would be very handy to also have the email of the user available. Is it possible for you to add this?

Thanks in advance!

When I use this plugin with crowd2-plugin I got incorrect BUILD_USER_ID which looks like:

FirtsName, Last Name (login_name)

I'm not sure is this issue related to your plugin or to jenkins-crowd2 plugin.

Did a little trick:

USER=`echo ${BUILD_USER_ID} | sed 's/.*(\(.*\))/\1/'`

Chuck Norris Approved!

Brilliant Plugin

kohsuke, why is this not part of jenkins core? :)

I'm trying to use this with build-name-setter plugin but I can't get it to work. Am I missing something obvious?

Does this plug-in really work?

I tried with my Jenkins setup 1.471; Did not find it working.

Hi,

Having a bit of trouble with passing BUILD_USER_ID from one project (dev build) to a downstream project (to test it). I've "Set jenkins user build variables" set and when I do a build I can see them all if I do an env in the build shell step:

BUILD_ID=2012-12-05_16-50-18
BUILD_NUMBER=349
BUILD_USER=jm0221
BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME=jm0221
BUILD_USER_ID=jm0221
CFG=debug
CVS_RSH=ssh
EXECUTOR_NUMBER=0
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
etc

So to pass them to the downstream I've "Trigger parameterized build on other projects" set and a few predefined key/value pairs. The thing is only UPSTREAM_BUILD_NUMBER and UPSTREAM_BUILD_URL are actually worked out, and the others are just as is.

UPSTREAM_BUILD_USER_ID=${BUILD_USER_ID}
UPSTREAM_BUILD_NUMBER=${BUILD_NUMBER}
UPSTREAM_BUILD_USER=${BUILD_USER}
UPSTREAM_BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME=${BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME}
UPSTREAM_BUILD_USER_LAST_NAME=${BUILD_USER_LAST_NAME}
UPSTREAM_BUILD_URL=${BUILD_URL}

In the downstream project console log when env is called from the shell script (and visible when the downstream project is in the queue by hovering over the job) they aren't passed through:

UPSTREAM_BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME=${BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME}
HUDSON_SERVER_COOKIE=8f8a9b4d6907024979c6b2fb708eb18d
SHELL=/bin/bash
UPSTREAM_BUILD_NUMBER=349

what am I doing wrong. Do I need to use envinject plugin? I just want to pass the userid so I can take that and mail the person that started the overall job. 

Thanks in advance,
John

EDIT:

I switched to using JobExporter from the main job, set it to artifact the properties file and still pass the build number in a parameterized build of the downstream job. Then in it wget the correct file to its workspace and grab what I need.

This plugin doesn't work for matrix jobs. I'd like to file a bug i JIRA, but the build-user-vars-plugin component doesn't exist. Can someone create it?

Hey folks,

Trying to download build-user-vars-plugin but can’t find it in available plugins in jenkins. Is it named something different? or any tip to download it.

Thanks

Hey folks,

Trying to download build-user-vars-plugin but can’t find it in available plugins in jenkins. Is it named something different? or any tip to download it.

Thanks

This plugin is not working on matrix config projects. It would be good if this plugin supports that too.

Even after enabling "Set jenkins user build variables" and trying to print in the execute shell command using "export BUILD_USER=$BUILD_USER"05:16:35 $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson1996225104865305122.sh
05:16:35 + export BUILD_USER=
05:16:35 + BUILD_USER=

This is really a great plug-in, especially for Jenkins newbie like me.

I do have a feature request --- Is it possible to enhance this plug-in to retrieve the BUILD_USER_EMAIL value?

Will this work in Groovy?

I would like to use in Execute Groovy Script????

Is it BUILD_USER or BUILD_USER_NAME or both?

Hello Team,

I have a scenario, like we have 100+ jobs in our Jenkins. The requirement is, the editable email notification plugin should send an mail with the detials of the Build Requestor.
With Build user vars plugin we are able to acheive this , by selecting the option " set jenkins user variable" in Configure Jenkins Job page and including $Build_User in email content.
As we have 100+ jobs is there any option to set this option at Manage Jenkins level.
I have declared the $BUILD_USER in the Default Content at Manage Jenkins level. But we are getting the Build Requestor details only for the Jobs for which the option " set user jenkins variable" option is selected.
Is there any option by which we can acheive this by doing something at Manage Jenkins level instead of configuring each and every jobAs we have 100+ jobs.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards,
Masthan Vali

Is anyone using this plugin in conjunction with the Environment Dashboard plugin ( https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Environment+dashboard+plugin )?  I'm trying to use ${BUILD_USER_ID} as my build number for dashboard display but it doesn't get expanded (the dashboard shows literally ${BUILD_USER_ID}).  However in my shell build step,  "echo $BUILD_USER_ID" works as expected.

Hi,

I want to use the Variables from this plugin in a groovy post-build. since it is not explicitely mentioned, can somebody confirm, that using the variables other than in a regular build step is not supported?

If so, I really would like to vote for this feature in future releases.

All recommendations I've found so far are workarounds in best case but in fact they're rather ugly tries to overcome this (potential) limitation.

I'd really appreciate if there is a smart solution by extending this plugin.

But perhaps I'm totally wrong and just not able to use it correctly? Then, I'm happy to learn how to do so.

Thanks alot

I can't get the Build User Vars Plugin to work with the Pipeline Plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Plugin).

I noticed that checking the "Set jenkins user build variables" box adds the following line to the config.xml of my Jenkins job:

<org.jenkinsci.plugins.builduser.BuildUser plugin="build-user-vars-plugin@1.5"/>

So I tried the following in my Pipeline script:

import org.jenkinsci.plugins.builduser.BuildUser
echo "${env.BUILD_USER}"

But it prints out null.

I am not able to get this plugin to work. I am on Windows. I have selected the checkbox and added in the line:

echo "Build started by: %BUILD_USER%"

Then in my log it just prints out:

Build started by: %BUILD_USER%

And idea? I can give more information if needed. Thanks!

When using AD I'd expect the $BUILD_USER_EMAIL (for instance) to be populated from the AD and not manually set. Any solutions?

Note that on the Jenkins plugin page I have to search for "

" to install it

I'm not having any luck getting this plugin to work. Jenkins 2.119 on Ubuntu.

My build job has a bash script containing the following however each of BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME and BUILD_USER_LAST_NAME are always returned empty. The user logged-in who is starting the build does have a first name and last name specified.

USERNAME="${BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME} ${BUILD_USER_LAST_NAME}"

Make sure to enable the "Set jenkins user build variables" in your build environment for the Jenkins job you are working on.

I'm not able to get this to work either, I have the "Set jenkins user build variables" checked in my job and the variable just returns empty.  I am using a Powershell build step, other Jenkins env vars work such as $ENV:JOB_NAME work normally, but none of the ones from this plugin work properly.