From the course: Learning Jenkins: Automating Software Development and System Administration

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Search with the command palette

Search with the command palette

- [Instructor] Along with organizing Jenkins jobs using views and folders, there's another feature we can use for searching, the command palette. You can access the command palette by pressing the Command and K keys on a Mac or the Control and K keys on Windows. This opens the dialogue where we can enter search terms. Objects we can search for, include folders, jobs, views, and users. Let's search for Cyclones items. With this search term, the palette displays the folder and the jobs that have Cyclones somewhere in their name. Now let's search for build. This time the palette shows all the jobs and views that have build somewhere in their name. Selecting anything display in the palette will take you directly to that item. We can get more specific by adding additional search terms that Jenkins can associate with items in the interface. Let's go to the very first run of the Cyclones-DEPLOY job. By typing Cyclones, followed by deploy, and the number 1, Jenkins knows exactly what we're…

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