Ordering and display names

[ThijsK80]

Great work so far, I really appreciate the plugin! I am using the multijob plugin to chain various jobs and I would like to be able to order the jobs manually in the build monitor. I have tried to edit the config.xml and put jobs in a different order, but then it removes some jobs from the monitor instead of reordering them. Is there a way to order jobs manually or do you have intentions to implement such functionality?

Next to that, I am using job names which are to long because of some prefixing. Adding a job display name is not picked up by the monitor. Is this also scheduled for a next release? Thanks!

[jan-molak]

Hi, thanks for your feedback and kind words :)

The jobs are currently ordered alphabetically. I'll need to think about adding a feature to allow for different ordering, but this requires a bit of a deeper thought to make it a pleasant experience. I'm happy to elaborate more on this one if you're interested?

To answer your second question: support for display name is already there. Could you please provide me with some additional information to help me verify and diagnose the issue:

• what version of Build Monitor are you using?
• what version of Jenkins are you using?
• what other plugins do you have installed?
• and most importantly: how are you setting the display name? are you doing this in the "Advanced Project Options" or using some plugin?
  

Thanks!

[ThijsK80]

Hi Jan,

Thank you for your quick response. If ordering is too much work to make it
a pleasant experience, I am fine when editing xml files will do the trick
;) I don't think I will change it often. I am very interested, so if you
would like to elaborate more on this I will appreciate that. When playing
around adding some more jobs, I was thinking it would be nice if it is
possible even to structure the matrix. For example, looking at the matrix
(let's say 3 rows, 4 columns) it would be very useful for us to play around
with the layout, ending up with e.g. the first row having cells 2 and 3
merged into one cell to make important jobs more visible and splitting cell
3,2 into a number of small ones to group less important but related jobs.
Anyway, it would be nice but probably a bit optimistic ;-)

The display name works fine now. I have updated to the latest version and
display names from the advanced project options are displayed correctly
now. Unfortunately, ordering is done using the real job name and not the
display name (which makes sense because the display name can be left
blank). We are using Jenkins 1.523 because we have issues with a newer
version in combination with some plugins. We have installed plenty of
plugins and we need to cleanup the ones we are not using.

Thanks!
Thijs

On 23 October 2013 23:26, Jan Molak notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, thanks for your feedback and kind words :)

The jobs are currently ordered alphabetically. I'll need to think about
adding a feature to allow for different ordering, but this requires a bit
of a deeper thought to make it a pleasant experience. I'm happy to
elaborate more on this one if you're interested?

To answer your second question: support for display name is already there.
Could you please provide me with some additional information to help me
verify and diagnose the issue:

• what version of Build Monitor are you using?
• what version of Jenkins are you using?
• what other plugins do you have installed?
• and most importantly: how are you setting the display name? are you
  doing this in the "Advanced Project Options" or using some plugin? [image:
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Thanks!

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I would like very much to be able to sort by the display name, so I second that request (rather than entering a new issue - if you would prefer a new issue let me know and I'll file one).

Thanks!

Ken