I am using the sonar ant task jar for sonar analysis so I setup it in the project-properties.xml and create an Ant build step in jenkins. When I build the job, the analysis works fine and I am able to see the results in the sonarqube server, but in jenkins no link to SonarQube is visible.
Do I really need to install the SonarQube plugin for the link to be visible for the job?
See also how to publish sonar result in jenkins server, or do we have sonar-report jenkins plugin
Normally you let SonarQube handle the code analysis on it's own and not by the Ant task (in the Jenkins job).
The Jenkins plug-in is there to trigger Sonar, to get latest sources (from the SCM) and run the analysis.
The results, are then made available on Sonar, but the Jenkins project, will provide a link to the results.
Workaround
There is (for as far as I know) no way to add a link, to an external generated report. What could be done, is add a simple HTML page, with a link to the Sonar server, to the project. And publish that simple HTML page, with the HTML Publisher Plugin.
