Set parameters or properties on a Flow (CD) pipeline gate
I have a pipeline that emails people in an entry gate to get a "go/nogo" for running the release stage. Anyone have any ideas of how I could solicit more input from the approvers and pass that into the stage? For example, I would like the approver to have the ability to specify a version for the release. Anyone have suggestions how to present a form in the middle of a pipeline run that can then change parameters or properties on the running pipeline? I was thinking of a gate that does the following: 1. Calls a procedure in the entry gate that dynamically creates a new procedure with parameters that default to values from the pipeline runtime. 2. The procedure emails a link to the "Run" page of the dynamically created procedure which the user can modify before running. 3. That job then manipulates the pipeline run with the new information from the user. But that seems complicated. Anyone have a better idea?
Does the approval have to be a gate? If not, you can use a manual task. Manual tasks can have parameters. If it has to be a gate, you could use the "comment" field. Unfortunately, there is not way to provide the user feedback in the UI to tell them the expected entry. I have created an [RFE][1] for this. It might be possible to create a custom email notifier for the gate; I'm not sure if these can be configured to accept user input and set properties. [1]:
https://feedback.cloudbees.com/app/#/case/31774
