Is it possible to show more than one finished build per configuration on the "Projects" page?
By default, it seems that project hierarchy displayed on in the "Projects" page show the latest completed build for a given configuration. If the configuration has branches, then the latest completed build for each branch is shown.
Some of our TeamCity users actively monitor some of the configurations that we have, looking for failed builds, but since a failed build can be immediately followed by a successful one, there's no way to get a "feel" as to the health of a given configuration directly from the preview page. One must drill down into each individual configuration get get a historical view of the state of the last few builds that completed. which can be time consuming and tedious.
In that context, we're been asked if there was a way to extend the number of finished builds that are displayed for each config/branch, beyond the single one that is currently displayed. Ideally, this could be set as a parameter somewhere so that people could configure it as they please.
Here's an example of what going from displaying a single completed build to display 3 would look like to us, to better illustrate our need:
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Hi,
thanks for your request and detailed description. While I can see where you are coming from, I'm not sure that including more results would be a solution to the proposed problem, unless you explicitly run the build configurations in small batches. If you happen to run 3-4 consecutively and have 1 less on display, you will still miss the failure if the first fails. While obviously the issue would reduce in size, it would be moving it instead of solving it.
There is already implemented a notification feature that will automatically alert via several methods (by default email, IDE and jabber, but can be expanded via plugins) of failures. That way you are guaranteed to get a proper notification rather fast whenever the event happens. More information here: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD18/Subscribing+to+Notifications
If you would still like to see this as a feature, please send us a request to our tracker here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/TW. Please include the detailed description of the use case, as that might make it likelier that it gets eventually implemented.
I think that the notifications would achieve what our users are aiming for in this context. I'll get back to them with this idea. Thanks for the suggestion.