How to hide or name pipelines for the manual run UI?

Question

I know we can name a custom pipeline and that name will appear in the pipeline choice dropdown in the manual run UI, but how to either name or hide the automatic pipelines?

As seen below I see the branch and pull-requests triggers which are incomprehensible to a user trying to figure out which pipeline to manually run.

Theodora Boudale · Answer

Hi Douglas,

Thank you for the feedback!

I went ahead and created a feature request in our issue tracker:

* https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-21912

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Kind regards,
Theodora

Douglas Knudsen · Answer

Yes, thanks! this is not very 'human' readable.   Seems it would be following a common pattern to use the 'name' property for that eh?   and use the manual property maybe to hide in the drop down?

a checkbox in this dialog to show only custom ones in the run uI could work, but I honestly think naming is better. Consider I want my QA team to manually trigger a build for a branch currently in a PR process and use the 'PR based pipeline' which is not a custom build.  We devops devs could work around that though with reusable pipeline blocks ala <<: *nameofpipeline

branches:
'master':
  name: "name of trigger here" 
    - step:
        script: 
           - echo "foo"
        name: "name of a step"
  '{feature/*,bugfix/*}':
  name: "trigger CI build example name to see in run UI"
  'someother/branchpatter':
  manual: false

Theodora Boudale · Answer

Hi Douglas,

I'm afraid that it is not possible to either rename or hide certain pipelines from this dropdown. The dropdown will show all pipelines available for the branch you have selected (or for a certain commit, if you are using the Run pipeline option of a commit's page). We provide the link See configuration next to the dropdown, so a user can view the yml file and details of each pipeline for that branch/commit.

That being said, I can create a feature request about either naming or hiding the automatic pipelines from the dropdown, for our development team to consider.
Would you like me to proceed with that?
If so, what would be preferable and more convenient for you? Giving a name to these pipelines? Or having a checkbox in this dialog to show only custom ones?

Kind regards,
Theodora