FB7 FileSetDefine (depreciated Artifacts)

Continua CI Discussion
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G'day,

I was looking for a way to find all the Visual Studio solution files (*.sln) within repo and there doesn't seem to be anything in Continua to do this out of the box. At one point you had an Artifacts feature http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/displa...act+Action but that was removed some time ago. In Final Builder 7 there is the infamous FileSetDefine, which seems to fall into a similar search for files tool within a repository. 

So what is the recommended method in Continua for finding all the *.sln files in a repository and then looping through them all and doing a simple Visual Studio solution compile?

Will we get some search, list looping features in the near future or should we be using powershell, Final Builder, etc to help pump information into continua looping mechanisms?

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Hi Jamie

Artifacts are still there in Continua, they just moved to the Stage Options dialog :

http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/continua/Stage+Options

The rules define which files are registered as artifacts:

http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/continua/Artifact+Rules

Note that you also need to define workspace rules to get the files back from the agent to the server otherwise they will not be picked up as artifacts.

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As far as looping goes, we will eventually but not for V1. Same applies to filesets. At this time, if you need to do advanced things like this then the best bet is to use FinalBuilder with Continua.