Automatically incrementing a variable with each build

[gruffbear]

Greetings.

Like many companies, mine uses a four-part number for identifying its software releases -- major.minor.maintenance.build . In my project, I currently have each part of this number set up with separate variables, as in [VersionMajor].[VersionMinor].[VersionMaintenance].[Version Build]

Is it possible to increment a variable automatically with each build? If so, I could set up the "build" part of the release number to do this.

If you have done this -- or if you know it isn't possible -- I would be interested to hear from you. Thank you.

[Andrew]

It's not possible with variables. However, I'm not sure that if it were, it would be a good idea. Do you only build your help when you application gets built? Does your app build process kicks off a command-line build in Flare? If a build happens any time outside of that process, or the build fails in a way that does not increment the number, your build numbers will get out of synch.

You may be able to gin something up with JavaScript, or it may be easiest to simply jury rig a vbscript or batch file that checks your application's build number, and adjusts the variable accordingly (before the build, obviously).

[Carsten Pedersen]

We do this during out automatic build:

*We define a variable in Vault e.g. BuildNumber and set it to <ChangedByAutoBuild> in the Vault environment.
* During the automatic build before the Vault build we replaced the occurrence of the variable <ChangedByAutoBuild>
in the variables xml file with the current build number we have in the build environment.

Probably not the best way, but it works.

-cpede

[samjones6]

I use a powershell script to do a text replace in the .htm file....