How to show pipeline artifact in the artifacts section in Azure DevOps

Question

 Is there any easy way to publish an artifact from a pipeline directly in the "Artifacts" section in Azure DevOps?

image-1 : Published pipeline artifact to artifact section

image-2 : What I was expecting in the publishing task

I am retrieving the pipeline artifacts manually thru Memu > Pipelines > my pipeline > the desired run > relatedItems > published item > clicArtifactName > download with browser. It's a working workaround but this procedure will be a pain to teach and document when onboarding new members to the team. Is there an easier way to do it? Did I miss something obvious? 

Answer 1

Here is a walkaround that will work.

Commit the build artifact to the repository.

• First, a task in the build pipeline writes the artifacts in $(Build.SourcesDirectory)\BuildArtifacts\myBuildArtifact_run$(Build.BuildNumber).zip
• Then the next task is a command-line script to commit to repos :

              echo This is the current working directory:  %cd%

              echo get worktree list
              git worktree list

             echo commit all changes
             git config user.email "joe@contoso.com"
             git config user.name "Automatic Build"
             git checkout master
             git add --all
             git commit -m "pipeline : $(Build.DefinitionName)"

             echo push code to  repo
             git -c http.extraheader="AUTHORIZATION: bearer $(System.AccessToken)" push origin master

• Finally, you’ll find the committed artifact in your repository, under root > BuildArtifacts

This will help you solve this issue.