Description
Property expansion by default is an all or nothing selection when you reference a property.
Properties are always expanded within the text of the commands of the shell.
If you want to set a property as the text of the property instead of the value of the property using:
ectool setProperty /myJob/noExpanded "$[stepName]"
Solution variable concatenation
In a shell
Use the syntax of the shell to defeat property expansion. For example, using a bash shell:
dollar="\$" ectool setProperty /myJob/noExpanded "$dollar[stepName]"
In perl
Make this step an ec-perl step and in Perl, concatenate two strings
use ElectricCommander;
$ec = ElectricCommander->new();
$ec->setProperty("/myJob/noExpanded", "\$" . "[stepName]", {jobStepId => $ENV{COMMANDER_JOBSTEPID}});
Solution javascript character obfuscation
Property expansion only takes place when the syntax is contiguous. Adding escape characters defeats property expansion, so replace the first two characters with a JavaScript reference that is the equivalent:
ectool setProperty /myJob/noExpanded "$[/javascript '\x24'][stepName]"