Downstream pipeline job that uses environments with approvals is not clickable
Downstream pipeline job that uses environments with approvals is not clickable.
When job uses environments with approvals, and triggers downstream pipeline, job is not clickable in UI. It's difficult to understand that job requires approval. For regular jobs, we can click on job and we are redirected to view that explains that approval is required. See screenshots:
Downstream job, not clickable:
Regular job, clickable:
We reproduce this by using the following setup:
- create an environment named production and protect it requiring approval
- create a simple upstream pipeline config as follows:
stages: # List of stages for jobs, and their order of execution
- build
- test
- deploy
build-job: # This job runs in the build stage, which runs first.
stage: build
script:
- echo "Compiling the code..."
- echo "Compile complete."
trigger_job:
trigger:
include:
- local: child-pipeline.yml
environment: production
- create the child pipeline config as follows:
downstream-job: # This job runs in the build stage, which runs first.
stage: test
script:
- echo "Compiling the code..."
- echo "Compile complete."
The result in the pipeline view: no action possible on the trigger job and no indication that the reason here is that the environment approval has to be given.
FYI @ahergenhan
Enterprise ticket: https://support.gitlab.com/hc/en-us/requests/605820
Implementation guide
Problem
Manual jobs requiring approval have deployment page links in status.action.path, but this isn't used in the UI. In job_item.vue, blocked manual jobs lack detailsPath and hasDetails properties, preventing navigation to deployment details.
Required Changes
- Update
job_item.vueto use status.action.path when available - Enable navigation to deployment details for blocked manual jobs
- Update UI to indicate when deployment details are accessible
Expected Outcome
Users can navigate to deployment details from blocked manual jobs, with a clear UI indication that this functionality exists.

