Higher level need: we just want a dashboard of latest build status for certain branches of certain repos.
I thought the best/easiest way to do this would be to use the “Status Monitor” plugin.
Sounds great in theory… but after I install it, and go to the configuration for a branch…
it is READ-ONLY.
chatgpt tells me this is because jenkins forces me to change the configuration only through the Jenkinsfile of the branch(boo!)
But how do I even do that? what is the syntax?
There is no hint on
Alternatively, is there a better/easier way to do what I want?
I like the embeddable build status plugin to embed build status in other pages with Markdown or HTML. The syntax is available for each job from pages like this. The representation is compact and it provides a clickable hyperlink when more investigation is needed. It looks something like this:
I also use embeddable build status inside my Jenkins folders. I enable Markdown formatting in Jenkins pages with the markdown formatter plugin and then embed the status into the description of the folder that holds all the jobs. It looks something like this for me:
