Exclude .config files from appSetting and connectionString replacement

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Hi,

Is it possible to exclude files from being included in the appSetting / connectionString .config file replacement as part of the “Configuration Variables” feature?

We are using a Quartz library that has a .config file for configuration that has a non-XML structure. Octopus is attempting to replace variables in this file and throwing an exception as it is not XML:

Exception while replacing configuration-variables in: ********\quartz.config
System.Xml.XmlException: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.

I have tried to supress errors via “Octopus.Action.Package.IgnoreConfigTransformationErrors” but that seems to only suppress transform errors rather than file parsing errors.

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Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. Yeah that variable will only suppress errors that happened while the Config Transfom feature was running. The variable you should be using is Octopus.Action.Package.IgnoreVariableReplacementErrors set to True.

Hope that helps,
Dalmiro

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I will give this a try today, thank you!

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Thank you, that works great and allows my deployment to succeed.

It would be good if “Octopus.Action.Package.IgnoreVariableReplacementErrors” was an enum with options like:

Yes
YesNoWarning
No

Thus the deployment wouldnt be marked with a green tick and a warning triangle on the dashboard because I was expecting it to warn me.

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