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Show an error in Schedules UI when a scheduled pipeline failed to be created.

Problem to solve

Customer encountered (internal only) an issue where in a scheduled pipeline will not run (even when ran manually via the CI/CD -> Schedules UI). It turns out that the there is a logic error in .gitlab-ci.yml where the main job uses the needs keyword and pointed to a job that has except:schedules set.

Intended users

User experience goal

The user should be able to see a helpful error message either in the CI/CD -> Schedules or CI/CD -> Pipelines when a scheduled pipeline failed to be created due to logic error in .gitlab-ci.yml.

Proposal

Add a pipeline schedule status to reflect that the scheduled pipeline was not created as scheduled.

#224958 (comment 1382437360)

Further details

Steps to reproduce scenario:

  1. Create a project
  2. Add the following as the CI configuration that passes lint checker 
    build:
  stage: build
  script: echo
test:
  stage: test
  needs: ['build']
  script: echo
  except:
    - schedules
deploy:
  stage: deploy
  needs: ['test']
  script: echo
  3. Create a daily pipeline schedule against the default branch under CI/CD > Schedules page
  4. Await the schedule execution time, or attempt an immediate execution of the schedule
  5. Schedule does not launch a pipeline
  6. Intuitively head to CI/CD > Pipelines page to try to find why the schedule failed to run
  7. No pipeline entry matching the schedule appears in CI/CD > Pipelines page
  8. There's zero information anywhere on the UI as to why the schedule failed to run

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Edited by Max Fan