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[QB-2093] view variable references
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | QuickBuild |
| Component/s: | None |
| Affects Version/s: | 5.1.26 |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | New Feature | Priority: | Major |
| Reporter: | Tim Earle | Assigned To: | Robin Shen |
| Resolution: | Won't Fix | Votes: | 0 |
| Remaining Estimate: | Unknown | Time Spent: | Unknown |
| Original Estimate: | Unknown | ||
| Description |
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Add the ability to view the configurations, steps, and other variables which reference a specific variable. This can be exceptionally useful when understanding the impact of changing a variable's name, value, or format.
Currently the only way to do this effectively is interrogate the database backup and look for vars.getValue('VAR_NAME'). A few ways would be to inspect the audit log for this syntax for a string, or to scan the "variables" section of builds and provide a "last used" or "used in" link, which results in the list of jobs which have made use of the variable. |
| Comments |
| Comment by Robin Shen [ 18/Jun/14 12:31 AM ] |
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Unfortunately this is almost impossible as many references exist in groovy and it is not a easy task to search for references in an interpretated language, not to mention that it will be very time consuming to search for every possible script in all configurations due to nature of QB (script can happen in every possible place including custom plugin settings).
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