Workspaces

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This page displays all workspaces currently available to CloudBees CD/RO. At a glance, you can see all paths to every workspace.

Viewing the List of Workspaces

To see the list of workspaces, open the Workspaces page using one of the following methods:

  • From the Deploy UI: browse to https://<cloudbees-flow-server>/flow/, and then from the main menu, click Administration > Workspaces.

  • From the Automation Platform UI: browse to https://<cloudbees-flow-server>/commander/, and then from the main menu, click Administration > Cloud > Workspaces.

The Workspaces page displays the following information:

Column Name Description / Actions

Workspace Name

Name created for this workspace. Click on a Workspace Name in this column to edit that workspace.

Zone

Name of the zone where this workspace resides.

Enabled

This workspace is enabled if this box is checked. When this box is checked, the workspace is enabled, which means it can be accessed. In the case where a job or job step cannot access the workspace, the job will queue, waiting for the workspace to become available.

Local

If the box is checked, the workspace is local, which means files in the local workspace are accessible only from the resource that originally created the file.

Description

(Optional) Plain text or HTML description for this object. If using HTML, you must surround your text with <html> …​ </html> tags. Allowable HTML tags are <a>, <b>, <br>, <div>, <dl>, <font>, <i>, <li>, <ol>, <p>, <pre>, <span>, <style>, <table>, <tc>, <td>, <th>, <tr>, and <ul>.

  • For example, the following HTML:

    <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> <i>Note:</i> For more information about the <b>abc</b> object, see <a href="https://www.google.com/">\https://www.google.com</a>. </span> </p>

    renders as follows:

    <i>Note</i>: For more information about the <b>abc</b> object, see \https://www.google.com.

Drive Path / UNC Path / UNIX Path

Path to the workspace.

Actions

  • Copy —Use this link to make an exact duplicate of an existing workspace, then select the copy to go to the Edit Workspace page to change the workspace name.

  • Delete —Use this link to delete the workspace on the same row.

Viewing or Editing Workspace Details

To view the details of a specific workspace, click the name of the workspace. To edit the details, complete the fields and menus in the Edit Workspace page and click OK. For details, see Workspace—create new or modify existing workspace .

Add access control privileges to a workspace on the Edit Workspace page.