Child Step Run Condition Blocks Upgrades to Step Template

Octopus Server
#1

Is there a known issue with child step run conditions causing failures to step template upgrades?

My team and I have been experiencing issues updating step templates since Run Conditions became available on child steps which as our run conditions get more complex is often quite painful. I recently upgrade our server to the latest build 2020.4.11 and haven’t seen the issue go away.

Steps to Replicate:

  1. Create simple step template
  2. Create project with a single parent step and multiple child steps based on step template
  3. Add Run Condition to each child step
  4. Do simple modification to step template code (ex. add write-host) and Save
  5. In step template usage, attempt to Update All which will result in failure

Our current work-around is as follows:

  1. Update step template and save
  2. Remove project process child step run conditions
  3. Go back to step template -> Usage and update all
  4. Re-add child step run conditions

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave Schmitz
dgschmitz@symplr.com

#3

Hi Dave,

Thank you for contacting Octopus Support.

It looks like you are experiencing this bug:

The good news is that the bug has already been addressed in 2020.5.X. From the information I have, it looks like this version should be publicly available either this week or next.

Let me know if you have any questions about this or anything else. We’re here to help. :slight_smile:

Regards,

#4

Thank you for the quick response. I look forward to the fix.

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