Creating a New Plan

Step 1. Create the plan

When you create a new plan, you can define everything about your build process, including what gets built, how the plan's build is triggered and what jobs are executed.

To create a new plan, complete the following sections:

1. Click Create Plan in the menu bar, and then click Create a New Plan.

2. Complete the following sections:

   Plan Details	Either select an existing project to which this plan will belong, or click New Project.
   Source Repositories	See the following for details: Bitbucket - Mercurial CVS Git GitHub Mercurial Perforce Subversion
   Build Strategy	Choose how Bamboo should trigger builds. See Triggering Builds in Bamboo.

Step 2. Configure tasks for the plan

When a new plan is created, a default job is also created as part of the plan. As part of creating your plan, you need to configure the tasks for the default job. You can add more tasks to the default job after the plan is created, as well as create new jobs.

1. On the 'Configure Tasks' screen, click Add Task to add a task to the new plan.
2. Click the desired task type in the 'Task Types' dialog.
3. Fill out the details for the task. The fields and options will be different depending on the executable that you chose. See the following documentation for specific instructions on each executable:
   • Configuring a Builder Task
   • Configuring a Test Task
   • Using Global, Plan or Build-specific Variables
4. In the 'Enable this plan' section, choose whether or not to enable this plan. Enabling the plan instructs Bamboo to commence executing builds of the plan based on the plan's build strategy (defined above). To enable this plan, select the Yes please! check box.
5. Click Create to create the plan. The 'Plan Summary' page will be displayed.
   When you next return to the Dashboard, your new plan (and new project, if applicable) will be displayed on the All Plans tab. Bamboo will also automatically run an initial build for your new plan, unless you have opted for the Manual & dependent builds only build strategy.

If you wish to configure more plan options, please refer to Editing a Plan.

Screenshots: Creating a new plan - plan configuration and job configuration (click to view gallery)

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Notes

• You can configure Bamboo to automatically start an initial build for a new plan, even if you have selected the Manual & dependent builds only build strategy. To do this, add the fire.initial.build.for.manual.strategy to your bamboo.cfg.xml file as described in Configuring System Properties.

Related Topics

Creating a Plan
Cloning an existing plan
Importing a plan from Maven 2