Always run particular action, even if previous actions have failed

[Guest]

Let's say I'm doing a web deployment which involves stopping an Application Pool, performing a sequence of deployment actions, then starting the Application Pool. Is there a way to cancel that sequence of actions if one of them fails, but still run the action to start the Application Pool?

It seems like the only way to accomplish this is to run through every action in the sequence even if one of them fails.

[Guest]

You can set the action to "Resume Next on Failure" and use the "Execution Status" predicate on the following action groups to only run the groups if the execution is not in "Failed" status.

If the action that is failing is not crucial to deployment, you can set it to "Log Errors as Warnings" which will also stop it from halting the deployment.

[Guest]

Thanks Tod,

I think I can achieve the desired behaviour using your suggestion, but I imagine that would get very unwieldy and error-prone for complex builds, especially if new actions are added or execution order changes.

[Guest]

Depending on what type of action you want to run, you can use Triggers (http://inedo.com/support/documentation/buildmaster/auditing-and-compliance/triggers) or Notifiers to achieve the effect you're looking for. Since triggers are extensible, you could create a BuildMaster extension that does whatever you need after an arbitrary execution.

[Guest]

Well sure, I <em>could</em> just script this stuff myself ;)