Azure DevOps Classic Release Pipelines: Using Task Group Parameters to Control Task Execution

In this post let's see how we can use Parameters in a Task Group to control Task execution in Azure DevOps Classic Release Pipelines.

Let's say we have a Task Group that accepts following parameter.

Task Group Parameter

Now based on the value (true/false) passed in for this parameter, say I want to skip a particular Task. For that, we can use tasks Control Options -> Run this task -> Custom conditions.

Control Options -> Run this task -> Custom conditions

First step is initializing a release level variable with the value of the parameter. Note: I couldn't figure out how to access parameters directly in the condition, hence using a variable. If you find out a way, please do leave a comment. 

We can add in a PoweShell Task and do follows to initialize a variable.

Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=varIsSkipTask]$(IsSkipTask)"

Set Variable

And now, we can use the variable in custom condition as follows.

and(succeeded(), ne(variables['varIsSkipTask'], 'true'))

Control Options -> Run this task -> Custom conditions: Skip Task

And that's it.

Now when I run a release with IsSkipTask = true ,

IsSkipTask = true

Task is Skipped.

Task is skipped

Else,

Task is not skipped

Task is not getting skipped.

Hope this helps.

Happy Coding.

Regards,

Jaliya