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Is there a way to tell if a release is fired by a schedule in octopus

We have a project in Octopus that has been configured to release to an environment on a schedule.

In the process definition we use a step template for Slack to send the team a notification when a release takes place. We would like to avoid sending this Slack message if the release was fired by the schedule - rather than user initiated.

I was hoping there would be a system variable that we could check before running the Slack step - but I can't seem to find anything documented as such, and google didn't turn anything up.

TIA

Solution

  • If you are using Octopus 2019.5.0 or later, there are two variables that will be populated if the deployment was created by a trigger.

    • Octopus.Deployment.Trigger.Id
    • Octopus.Deployment.Trigger.Name

    You can see the details at https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/5462

    For your Slack step, you can use this run condition to skip it if the trigger ID is populated.

    #{unless Octopus.Deployment.Trigger.Id}True#{/unless}

    I hope that helps!