Embed a Date into a Build Artifact

[Cory Mohling]

I have a build plan that produces a zip file as an artifact. Right now, it is called build.zip. I was wondering if it possible to name it based off the Date or Rev of the build such as build_01_19_18_rev12345.zip. I wanted to try to help avoid people mixing up builds, since currently their download folder will just have a series of generic build.zip files.

[Steffen Opel _Utoolity_]

You can achieve this by facilitating Bamboo variables in the build step that produces the artifact, in particular you likely want to use ${bamboo.buildTimeStamp} and/or ${bambooBuildNumber}.

The specifics depend on the build step you are using to produce the artifact, but all Bamboo tasks including the Script task should support the required variable substitution at build time just fine - the examples for Maven ant Ant illustrate the general concept.

[Cory Mohling]

Thanks for the response. Is there any way to set the value of a bamboo variable from within a script? Or do some string manipulation of other bamboo variables? Example, could I just get the date without the time.

[Steffen Opel _Utoolity_]

Yes, but only with an indirection - you can manipulate the variable values in a script, write them to a file, and then inject them again as new variables by means of one of the following tasks:

• the built-in Bamboo Variables task
• David Ehringer's YAML and JSON Variables Loader
• llucIT Software's Variable Extractor Tasks for Bamboo

You can then refer to the newly injected variables from subsequent tasks.

[Cory Mohling]

Awesome thank you very much.