Change Artifacts Explore Link in Visual Studio Team Services

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I have successfully created a build within Visual Studio Team Services. One step of the build is to copy the outcome (artifact) to a Drop Folder which contains all versions of the artifact for that build. So far so good.

As you can see in the following image. I am using a File share as the Artifact Type and then I specify the path where the artifact has to be copied.

artifact configuration

Now the issue. When I go to the build summary and click on the artifact tab, I can see the explore link. Clicking on that link will pop up the following:

The browser cannot open the following location due to this browser's security settings. You will need to copy the location and open it manually.

The location is: file://BuildServer/BuildDrops/MyArtifactName/[version here]

OK to copy the location to your clipboard.

So I set up an FTP server in such a way that the ftp://BuildServer/BuildDrops/ URL is pointing to the same path specified in the Copy Publish Artifact build task.

But I see no way to modify the link to use my custom URL.

Ideally, the Copy Publish Artifact task should accept a variable, let's say, Artifact Link Base URL so I can pass the value for the base URL and the link will use this value instead.

Anyway, my question.

Is there any way to modify the link whatsoever?

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1 Answers

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There isn’t the way or feature to modify the artifact link URL in Visual Studio Team Services.

You can build a custom extension (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/integrate/extensions/overview_ to build a FTP URL according to build artifact download URL, then generate a hyperlink to navigate to corresponding FTP site.

Extension sample for build results: https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-extension-samples/tree/master/build-results-enhancer