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I’d like to use the IM plugin or maybe an email trigger to initiate a build. The job/build needs one parameter that I would have to set with the trigger mechanism.
In looking at the jabber/IM plugin it does not look like this is possible (the parameter part)
Has anyone solved this in some way? Should I use some other mechanism?
The build server is not on a public/internet facing machine – it is within our internal network. Current builds are triggered by an SCM/SVN commit.
I would use an URL to trigger the build. See Parameterized Builds. The URL is
You can also check into the Remote Access API for other options.
On the Building a Software Project you can see examples on how to configure an email trigger. Just replace the URL with the one from the Parameterized Builds page.
EDIT: I just looked up the Jabber and IM Plugins. They both support parametrized builds. Jabber since 1.9 which corresponds to IM 1.7. The issue is logged in Hudson’s JIRA under Hudson-5058. Please don’t ask me how you actually need to configure the parameters; I couldn’t find any documentation for that. But you have a look at the changes made for the issue (the links to the code changes can be found in Hudson-5058).