TeamCity - using setParameter to pass information between build steps

Question

I must be doing something differently than what was asked and answered here because the solution does not appear to be working for me: TeamCity, passing an id generated in one build step to a later build step

I want use a string generated by one build step in a final build step. So far I have set up an environmental variable called "TEST" that is empty. Both build steps use the Command Line Runner.

Build Step #1:

\##teamcity[setParameter name='env.TEST' value='test']

Build Step #2:

echo $TEST

echo %env.TEST%;

Placeholder for now, but if I could access the test string ('test') set in Build Step 1 I would be so happy.

Answer 1

you need to echo that string, e.g.

echo "##teamcity[setParameter name='env.TEST' value='test']"