Configuring Finish Build Trigger
The finish build trigger starts a build of the current build configuration when a build of the selected build configuration is finished. If the "Trigger after successful build only" checkbox is enabled, a build is triggered only after a successful build of the selected configuration.
To monitor builds in other build configurations and trigger a build if these builds change, please see this option of the schedule build trigger.
In most of the cases, the finish build trigger should be used with snapshot dependencies, that is the current build configuration where the trigger is defined should have a direct or an indirect snapshot dependency on the build configuration selected in the trigger. If there is no snapshot dependency, the following limitations exist:
It is likely that a build of the build configuration being triggered will not have the same revisions as the finished build even if both configurations have the same VCS settings.
If a build configuration with the finish build trigger has an artifact dependency on the last finished build of the build configuration specified in the trigger settings, there is no guarantee that artifacts of a build which caused build triggering will be used, because, while the triggered build sits in the build queue, another build may finish.
The build triggered by the finish build trigger will always be triggered in the default branch even if the finished build uses another branch.
The algorithm does not guarantee that every finished build in a monitored configuration will trigger a respective build in a configuration with the finish build trigger. In certain cases, for example, if two monitored builds finish somewhat simultaneously, only one respective build might be triggered. For more details on this limitation and its possible workarounds, see the related task in our issue tracker; if this limitation restrains your build pipeline anyhow, please leave a comment to this issue describing your use case.
All these limitations do not apply if a build configuration with the finish build trigger has a snapshot dependency on the selected build configuration. In this case, the trigger will run build on the same revisions and will attach the build to the chain. It will also use consistent artifacts if they are produced by dependencies.
Note that if a build configuration with the finish build trigger has a snapshot dependency on the selected build configuration, the trigger will be able to detect if the last monitored build has already been promoted to the current build configuration (either manually or by another trigger). In this case, the trigger will not run a new build.
In a build configuration with branches, you can use the branch filter to limit the branches in which finished builds will trigger new builds of the current configuration.