# Add Warning State
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [October 27, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431 "2015-10-27T06:54:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@finalbuilder](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/finalbuilder)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431/1 "2015-10-27T06:54:02Z")
Hi Support Team,
my ContinuaCI build process has some stages which are not essential to the build process itself; they are only ‘nice to have’. For example:
- the new binaries are copied to a local installation of the software to always have the most recent version on the build server
- check-in after build
These actions could fail because of
- access rights (sometimes the copy action cannot update the files because of user rights / different NTFS file owner) or because a programm to be replaced is currently running
- merge conflicts when checking-in
These situations should not lead to a failed build, because it can be fixed after build. Therefore I surrounded them with try/except.
It would be nice to be able to mark such stages as somewhat like ‘warning’=yellow instead of ‘success’=green for a better recognition of additional tasks required after build.
Would you mind to consider this to be implemented in future releases?
Best regards
Michael
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431/2 "2015-10-27T11:52:31Z")
Hi Micheal,
Yes, we have had another request for this. It is currently on our to-do list. I’ll increase the priority.
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### Author:  [@marcel.oertig](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/marcel.oertig)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431/3 "2016-06-21T03:36:30Z")
Hi Micheal,
do you now in which release this will be included?
For our build process it will be a very nice feature. Helpful would also be the possibility to set a State failed (red) but run the next state anyway.
Regards
Marcel
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431/4 "2016-06-22T04:13:28Z")
Hi Marcel,
We don’t have a timeframe for this, but thank you for your request which has been noted.
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### Author:  [@bscheufens](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/bscheufens)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431/5 "2017-03-17T02:08:54Z")
Hi there,
I’m playing around with the trial version and found the same issue. For some steps I would like to have a warning only.
Maybe there is a work around? I only use calls to external programs and monitor the results for key words.
Best regards
Bernd
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-warning-state/5431/6 "2017-03-20T01:24:08Z")
Hi Bernd,
We introduced experimental support for showing warnings in version v1.8.1.229. This is currently disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the Server property [Server.AllViews.ShowStageWarnings](http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/continua/System+Server+Properties) to True. You can then edit the Server property Actions.Messages.WarningPatterns to define [text or patterns](http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/continua/Error+and+Warning+Patterns+Format) to match against the action output and pick up as warnings. Any feedback on this new feature is welcome.
You can also send warning messages from an external program (run from a Continua CI action) by writing a [custom log message](http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/continua/Custom+Log+Messages) to standard output.
e.g.
```
`@@continua[message value=‘This will be logged as a warning’ status=‘warning’]`
```