Octopus Deploy Step , Action Variables

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Hi ,

I was wondering how can I use Octopus.Step.Name or Octopus.Action Variable’s to Display all the steps from deployment .

My last step of deployment is PowerShell script to collect all information and post it to RabbitMQ .

Regards

Mariusz

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Hi Mariusz,

Thanks for getting in touch! It’s a bit tricky to get all the variables from PowerShell, as they’re not easily referenced. We have a bit of a snippet that will help you to get some of the values, but may require a bit of modification to get it working for your situation:

$OctopusParameters.Keys | ? { 
   $_ -like "Octopus.Action*" 
   
} | % { 
   Write-Host "$​_ : $($OctopusParameters.Item($_​))"
}

The different variables that are available are listed here: http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/System+variables
Additionally, if you don’t know about it, there is a RabbitMQ library script: https://library.octopusdeploy.com/step-template/actiontemplate-rabbitmq-notify-deploy

I hope that gets you going! If you have any further questions, let us know :slight_smile:

Regards

Kenny

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Great Thank you !!

One more Question how can I display error message that is the same as in Octopus Server Verbose display .

Those Variable below display not the same message and it’s not clear what’s the error .

Octopus.Action.Status.Error
Octopus.Action.Status.ErrorDetails
Octopus.Step.Status.Error
Octopus.step.Status.ErrorDetails
Octopus.Deployment.Error
Octopus.Deployment.ErrorDetail

example from Octopus Server Verbose :

New-Item : The file ‘C:\temp\test.txt’ already exists.

example from Variables

Octopus.Shared.Tasks.ActivityFailedException: One or more child activities failed.

Regards

Mariusz

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Hi Mariusz,

Unfortunately that’s not possible. We do not store this information in variables that are available, but directly parse them to the logs.

Sorry for the bad news.

Kenny