Jenkins: Refresh jobs readed from the FileSystem

Question

I am using CloudBees Folder plugin, so I am able to create folders, but imagine this folders structure for the jobs:

/
  /production
  /test

And I have one job 'dummyjob' in 'test' folder, for example:

/
  /production
  /test/dummyjob

When I want to recreate the 'dummyjob' in production folder I am not able to create a new job in 'production' folder with option:

'Copy Existing Item'

Because It cannot read from 'test' folder what jobs are there.

So what I am doing in this moment it is to copy a paste the jobs in the File System, the annoying part is that i have to restart jenkins to take the changes in the Web Console.

What I have to do to avoid to restart jenkins?

Answer 1

If it helps to someone, I did it in this way:

http://ip_jenkins:port_jenkins/jenkins/reload

It is faster than restart (obvious) and safe.

Tested in Jenkins 1.620

Answer 2

Did you try typing in test/dummyjob in the origin job field? It ought to work.

Answer 3

Alternately, if you are a CloudBees customer running CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center, you can use the Move/Copy/Promote feature, designed for this use case.