Conditionally skipping a website deployment ('Octopus.Action.SkipRemainingConventions')

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I have a relatively basic deploy website step that is using an output variable from a previous step. I have “custom scripts” checked and have an IF block in the pre-deployment script that checks the value of the output variable and then should either deploy the website or skip the step and not deploy. I have seen another forum post about a system variable, Set-OctopusVariable(‘Octopus.Action.SkipRemainingConventions’, ‘True’), that sounds like it could be used to perform this ‘skip deployment’ type of action, but it does not appear to work. I even removed my IF logic and just pasted that in the pre-deployment script and it still deploys every time. Is this not the correct way to try to skip and exit a deployment based on a condition? Skipping steps that are just running powershell are easy enough with ‘exit 0’, but skipping a deploy step is puzzling me.

I have attached some screenshots of the process setup, if that helps.

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Hi Jeff,

Thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately there is an error in our docs on using SkipRemainingConventions with PowerShell. The correct syntax to use is:

Set-OctopusVariable 'Octopus.Action.SkipRemainingConventions' 'True'

or

Set-OctopusVariable -name 'Octopus.Action.SkipRemainingConventions' -value 'True'

I hope that helps. I’ll go and fix up our docs now.

Mark

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Tried that first corrected syntax you provided and it worked wonderfully. Thank you!