Hi. I’m running a Jenkins instance with a couple of thousands of jobs.
Generally, doing a deployment means running several jobs for a particular artifact.
I used to do this using the search bar. The jobs are given names containing the artifact-id, so if I search by artifact-id, I get a result page with a list of all jobs that could possibly be relevant. Using the browser’s search function, I can then highlight the jobs that actually are relevant, and open them in separate tabs, then run them.
I’ve since upgraded to Jenkins 2.513. The results page was removed and replaced with a dropdown list in the command palette bar. The command palette does not appear to accept regex, so it’s not possible to simulate my earlier workflow using more complicated terms.
I can’t work with this. I would need to create a bunch of new jobs to coordinate the jobs that I used to run from the results page to make this work. And I don’t want to. It’s more code to maintain, and more things that can break, so I don’t want to.
I’ve seen that there still exists an https://jenkins+url/search/?q=search+term page, but in my instance, this returns incomplete urls (only the path, not the scheme+host), which means I can’t easily use it (edit: right, I’ll see about upgrading to 2.514 asap).
My fellow humans, Jenkins devs - what am I missing? Can it really be that such a massively useful thing as a results page was simply - removed? Is there a way to restore this functionality without downgrading the entire system?
Thanks!