After a step moves to Pending Approval state, the approvers can approve or reject the step using the user interface.
To approve or reject a step:
Go to Applications | My Pipelines and run the relevant pipeline.
This displays Pipeline Run page.
Click the Approval step (called
approvalGatesStepin the example yaml above). This step will be in Pending status.Click the Approve/Reject button to reveal the following options:
Approve/Reject button: Click to approve or reject the step.
Comments field: This optional field enables you to add a meaningful comment for approving or rejecting the step. This has a 100 characters limit.
Approvers list: This lists the first letter of Artifactory usernames for users who were listed as approvers in the pipelines yaml. Hovering over a letter shows the full Artifactory username.
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Approving the step moves it from Pending Approval status to Waiting status. The step then gets picked up for execution by the next available execution node.
Rejecting the step moves it from Pending Approval status to Cancelled status.
Note
When a step is rejected, the subsequent steps are skipped resulting in the run being canceled.
When a step that is awaiting approval/rejection is canceled, that step and the subsequent steps are canceled resulting in the run being canceled.
If a step is not approved/rejected in the stipulated amount of time, it times out and the run is canceled.
After a step moves to Pending Approval state, the approvers can approve or reject the step using the user interface.
To approve or reject a step:
Go to Applications | My Pipelines and click the relevant pipeline.
This displays Pipeline Run page and you'll see the Approval step (called
approvalGatesStepin the example yaml above) in Pending status.
Click the Pending step in the Steps view to go to the step page.
This displays the Approve/Reject button for the step.
Click the Approve/Reject button to reveal the following options:
Approve/Reject button: Click to approve or reject the step.
Comments field: This optional field enables you to add a meaningful comment for approving or rejecting the step. This has a 100 characters limit.
Approvers list: This lists the first letter of Artifactory usernames for users who were listed as approvers in the pipelines yaml. Hovering over a letter shows the full Artifactory username.
Approving the step moves it from Pending Approval status to Waiting status. The step then gets picked up for execution by the next available execution node.
Rejecting the step moves it from Pending Approval status to Cancelling status, and eventually the step moves to Cancelled status.