How to give tasks a name in Azure DevOps Pipelines (YML)

Question

In the pipelines.yml file, the following is used:

steps:
# Print buildId
- script: |
    echo "BuildId = $(buildId)"

When looking at the build log in Azure DevOps, I see just "CmdLine".

Is there a way to give a step or a script a readable name which is visible in the build log?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '18 at 03:25

15

You just need to add the parameter displayName:

steps:
- script: 'echo "BuildId = $(Build.BuildId)"' 
  displayName: Test1001

- script: 'echo "BuildId = $(Build.BuildId)"' 
  displayName: Test1002

answered Oct 11 '18 at 03:25

Andy Li-MSFT

This works fine indeed, however I was mislead by VS2017 because the syntax highlighting failed. See this image : https://imgur.com/a/jgXH6t2 – Stef Heyenrath Oct 11 '18 at 16:28
@Stef Heyenrath: Seems to be fixed in 2019, but for 2017, try moving displayName above script. – steve May 11 '20 at 18:39

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