Who triggered a manual stage?

Question

Is there any way to find out which user triggered a manual stage in Bamboo?  When I look at the Summary for that stage it tells me that the build was triggered by changed code.  This was true for the first stage, but not for the manual stage at the end of the build.

William Sargent · Answer

I fixed this with a PreJobAction and the example code from https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/35653/is-it-possible-to-set-bamboo-variables-in-one-stage-via-custom-task-and-retrieve-it-in-a-different-stage -- there really needs to be more flexible and comprehensive documentation on how to set variables in Bamboo.

James Dumay · Answer

Heather, to confirm, are you looking at the trigger reason for build results that were created after your upgrade to Bamboo 4? The fix we added does not work retrospectively across your old build results.

Cameron Ferguso · Answer

Yeah we've seen this as well... depending on how the trigger occured affects what is shown as the "user" who triggered it... and it seems that the MetaData variable for hte username doesn't really know exactly who triggered the manual stage and from where