Sonarqube Community edition branch analysis failing

[Piotr Tokaj]

I am running Sonarqube Community Edition 7.9.1, and I want to run an analysis while passing the branch parameter to Sonar by setting the 

sonar.projectKey

parameter to

key:branch

as per the documentation https://docs.sonarqube.org/8.1/setup/upgrade-notes/

mvn clean install sonar:sonar -Dsonar.projectKey=PROJECT_KEY_SET_UP_ON_SONARQUBE:master -Dsonar.host.url=https://INTERNAL_SONARQUBE_ADDRESS -Dsonar.login=TOKEN

However I am getting a 

You're not authorized to run analysis. Please contact the project administrator.

error when running the analysis. The analysis works perfectly well without the :master suffix.

What am I doing wrong? According to the documentation everything should be working...

[Michael Rüegg _Mibex Software_]

Hi,

Is it possible that you are lacking one of these permissions in SonarQube?

• Execute Analysis
• Create Project

From the error I guess it is the second because running it without the branch suffix might create a new SonarQube project which needs that permission.

Best regards,

Michael