Team City Templates and Artifacts

Question

I recently noticed that I need to reuse the build step in many projects. So I created a template where I just defined this build step and had projects that needed it related to this template. It worked perfectly.

But then I realized that none of the affected projects generate their artifacts, although all of them were successfully built. When I looked at General Settings, the Artifact Routes field was grayed out and Team City told me that I can only change it inside the template!

I want my assemblies to have different artifact paths (some do not even generate artifacts at all), but I do not want to duplicate my build step. Is there any workaround for this?

Team City Version: 6.5.6 (Build 18130)

Answer 1

Here is how I get around this problem:

• Create a configuration parameter in the template assembly options section. I just call it Artifacts .

• Then specify the property in the Artifact Paths field in the template, for example % Artifacts%

• Then, for each configuration that inherits the template, you can override the artifact configuration parameter accordingly.

NTN

Answer 2

This is an old question and, apparently, affects only users with TeamCity versions less than 8.1 (as indicated in the comments to the accepted answer).

According to the official documentation :

Starting with TeamCity 8.1, in the assembly configuration inherited from the template, you can now override the following parameters:

• assembly number format
• artifact paths
• assembly parameters (detection of hanging assemblies, status widget, number of assemblies working simultaneously)
• VCS Verification Mode
• order catalog
• clear all files before assembly
• show changes from snapshot dependencies
• lead time
• all general assembly failure conditions, including runtime