Cannot claim builds in jenkins

Question

On our Jenkins (1.492) I have the Claim Plugin installed. Jenkins is configured to use LDAP using matrix authorization.

After installing the plugin and enabling the plugin in the configuration of each job the /claim view says "Welcome to the Hudson Claim Report. There are no failing builds. Excellent work!" and does not list any builds to claim.

I have both unstable and failed builds.

• I have rebuilt the failing and unstable builds after installing the plugin and configuring the jobs.
• I have also changed the default view back to "All" - I read somewhere that there may be a problem.
• I did also restart Jenkins.
• I am logged in with an LDAP user.
• The claim view does not list anything.
• I have no claim icon in the build history of the job.
• I have no claim link on the build page beneathe "started by user".
• I have added a "Claim" column to a custom view with failing tests - but it's empty.
• But I can claim a single regression via the test report view on a unstable build.

What have I missed? How can I find the problem?

Answer 1

In order to activate the Claim Plugin you must first add the 'Allow broken build claiming' action to the 'Post-build Action' section of one or more jobs. The next time the job fails after adding this step, it should be available to claim.

Configuring this on a large number of jobs is a bit of a pain but fortunately someone has contributed a Groovy script to allow broken build claiming on every job.