Reference job name inside job

Build Environment
1

Hi, is there some self referential way to access the job name given by the name key at the workflow level inside of the job? Given that “name” is a reserved parameter I thought maybe something like this would work:

jobs:
    build:
        docker:
            - image: buildpack-deps
        resource_class: small
        steps:
            - mycommand:
                jobname: <<parameters.name>>      # <---- How can I achieve this?!?

workflows:
    build-workflow:
        jobs:
            - build:
                name: somename

I’ve tried a few other things also to no avail, hoping there is a way thanks!

2

I can not say why name is a reserved parameter, but to do what you wish to do, you would use parameters as shown here under 'Passing parameters to jobs"

https://circleci.com/docs/jobs-steps/
3

Thanks yeah I’ve seen that.

I think the job name you specify under workflows is different from the name you give a run step.

workflows → Shows up under Github UI as the name of the job
run step name → Shows up under the CircleCI UI as the currently running step under that job.

I’m trying to reuse the job_name and pass it as a parameter through to my run step to avoid having to redundantly specify the same string twice.

jobs:
    build:
        parameter:
            someparam:
                type: string
        docker:
            - image: buildpack-deps
        resource_class: small
        steps:
            - mycommand:
                jobname: <<parameters.somename>>      # <---- Would be nice to use job name here, not redundant param

workflows:
    build-workflow:
        jobs:
            - build:
                name: somename             # <---- shows up under Gihub UI
                paramname: somename        # <---- passed down to run step name. redundant!

Hopefully that explains a bit better what I’m asking for.
Thanks