Pre-populate variable keys + value for manual pipelines
Problem to solve
Having to remember exactly the variable name and possible values when specifying variables for manual pipeline
Proposal
- Add a combo-box, with prefilled values pre-populated variables into pipelines
Further details
- Prepopulating the variable keys. I'm not sure how these could be defined, perhaps any top-level variables defined in .gitlab-ci.yml could have entries with their names already filled in. This way we dont have to remember exactly what the variable name is supposed to be.
- A dropdown list or "enum" of values in addition to just text input. This could be defined in the top-level variables as well though i'm not sure how you'd tackle setting its value for pipelines created by new commit pushes.
Links / references
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44059
Customer ticket -> https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/97958 (Internal)
https://gitlab.my.salesforce.com/0016100001ELkxW?srPos=0&srKp=001 (internal link)
Edited by Jackie Porter