# \#configuration **URL:** https://discuss.circleci.com/tag/configuration/153.md [Latest](https://discuss.circleci.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.circleci.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.circleci.com/tags.md) --- ## [“Auto-cancel redundant workflows” on non-default branches](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/auto-cancel-redundant-workflows-on-non-default-branches/54502)
**Author:** [@JoaoPimentel](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/JoaoPimentel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2026, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/auto-cancel-redundant-workflows-on-non-default-branches/54502 "2026-04-22T06:21:17Z")
Hello, We would like to clarify whether the “Auto-cancel redundant workflows” feature can be extended to branches other than the default branch. Based on the current behavior and documentation: “With the exception of… --- ## [Introducing the ability to test run config.yml changes from VS Code](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/introducing-the-ability-to-test-run-config-yml-changes-from-vs-code/50394)
**Author:** [@Benny](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Benny)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/introducing-the-ability-to-test-run-config-yml-changes-from-vs-code/50394 "2025-06-11T01:58:51Z")
Config Test Run lets you trigger pipelines from VS Code based on your local, unversioned config.yml file, rather than the one versioned on your branch.This lets you iterate on your CircleCI config without committing your… --- ## [Exciting News: Try Our New Limited Availability AI-Assisted Pipeline Editor!](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/exciting-news-try-our-new-limited-availability-ai-assisted-pipeline-editor/52814)
**Author:** [@martincircleci](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/martincircleci)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/exciting-news-try-our-new-limited-availability-ai-assisted-pipeline-editor/52814 "2025-02-27T20:48:19Z")
Hello CircleCI Community! :wave: We’ve got some thrilling news to share with you today! Our team has been hard at work developing an incredible new feature, and we’re buzzing with excitement to introduce it to you: the A… --- ## [Announcing a new way to test run your local config from VS Code (Closed Preview)](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/announcing-a-new-way-to-test-run-your-local-config-from-vs-code-closed-preview/50046)
**Author:** [@Benny](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Benny)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/announcing-a-new-way-to-test-run-your-local-config-from-vs-code-closed-preview/50046 "2024-03-12T08:39:34Z")
We’re very excited to introduce a new way of triggering pipelines from our VS Code extension. From version 2.0, our new Run Panel lets you trigger pipelines from VS Code based on your local, unversioned config.yml file,… --- ## [Config policies is now available!](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-policies-is-now-available/48754)
**Author:** [@AlexExum](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/AlexExum)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-policies-is-now-available/48754 "2023-07-26T19:33:29Z")
Config policies is now generally available for all Scale plan customers, helping you manage and enforce organization-wide conventions and adherence to software delivery policy. If you haven’t already checked it out, pol… --- ## [Allow setting (or fetching) org ID to support private orbs](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/allow-setting-or-fetching-org-id-to-support-private-orbs/46357)
**Author:** [@jlambert121](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/jlambert121)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/allow-setting-or-fetching-org-id-to-support-private-orbs/46357 "2023-01-04T11:01:06Z")
I’m not sure where to put feature requests for the vscode extension so please redirect me elsewhere if there’s a better spot! We use private orbs for our main workflows which requires using the --org-id {{org\_id}} to va… --- ## [Package to dynamically import orbs for the Config SDK](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/package-to-dynamically-import-orbs-for-the-config-sdk/46057)
**Author:** [@Xavientois](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Xavientois)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/package-to-dynamically-import-orbs-for-the-config-sdk/46057 "2022-11-10T16:04:19Z")
tl;dr I made a package to import orbs for use with the CircleCI Config SDK (link below) Motivation As someone who loves strongly typed code, the announcement of the CircleCI Config SDK was very exciting for me! Being ab… --- ## [Configure TTL for Artifacts](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/configure-ttl-for-artifacts/45137)
**Author:** [@overthetop](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/overthetop)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/configure-ttl-for-artifacts/45137 "2022-08-22T14:51:50Z")
I’m looking at the docs for artifacts and it seems that there is a way to configure how many days these artifacts are kept. I don’t need to preserve them for 30 day, 10 days is enough in my case. By default, artifact … --- ## [Contexts not applying](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/contexts-not-applying/43599)
**Author:** [@wschottler](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/wschottler)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/contexts-not-applying/43599 "2022-04-08T19:12:07Z")
So I am trying to take advantage of contexts for shared variables, but before I do to much work on it I setup a test context and confirm I understand how it all works. However I am unable to get any variables I put into … --- ## [Project environment variables in light of CodeCov leak](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/project-environment-variables-in-light-of-codecov-leak/39800)
**Author:** [@MichaelMarner](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/MichaelMarner)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/project-environment-variables-in-light-of-codecov-leak/39800 "2021-11-23T12:48:21Z")
So, in light of today’s massive CodeCov disclosure, I was wondering what CircleCI can do to reduce the impact of this kind of vulnerability. Apart from environment variables, what other mechanism can we use in CircleCI … --- ## [I got error when execute macos locally](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/i-got-error-when-execute-macos-locally/41159)
**Author:** [@b1ctory](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/b1ctory)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/i-got-error-when-execute-macos-locally/41159 "2021-09-14T02:18:14Z")
My Working Environment is … MacOS Catalina (10.15.4) circleci local execute -c process.yml --job job-ios-build When i put this line in my terminal, it returns error. Docker image digest: sha256: --------- (I erased t… --- ## [Tagged vs untagged build configuration woes](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/tagged-vs-untagged-build-configuration-woes/37154)
**Author:** [@yanngolanski](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/yanngolanski)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/tagged-vs-untagged-build-configuration-woes/37154 "2021-02-09T15:48:37Z")
Here’s my workflow: # \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ #\_\_/ Workflows \\\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ workflows: version: 2 untaggedd: jobs: - latex: filters: tags: … --- ## [Workspace not correctly attaching](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/workspace-not-correctly-attaching/32623)
**Author:** [@thibmaek](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/thibmaek)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/workspace-not-correctly-attaching/32623 "2020-11-20T19:19:26Z")
Fairly new to Circle CI and finally managed to wrap my head around how workspaces work across jobs. Weirdly enough it seems like the workspace does not attach correctly in this job: https://circleci.com/gh/inthepocket/h… --- ## [How to Retrieve a Pull Request's Base Branch Name \[GitHub\]](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/how-to-retrieve-a-pull-requests-base-branch-name-github/36911)
**Author:** [@Jaryt](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Jaryt)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/how-to-retrieve-a-pull-requests-base-branch-name-github/36911 "2020-07-31T20:37:32Z")
Hello everyone! If you are doing custom configuration with pull requests, you may run into a case where you need access to the name of the pull request’s base branch. Currently, this is not provided within a CircleCI bu… --- ## [Workflow not triggering on my tag filter](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/workflow-not-triggering-on-my-tag-filter/32218)
**Author:** [@jonyeezs](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/jonyeezs)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/workflow-not-triggering-on-my-tag-filter/32218 "2019-09-02T22:07:24Z")
I currently have 2 workflows with their own filters. I have a workflow that filters on master branch and /^v.\*/ tags. But its still firing off jobs when I don’t expect it to be (ie commits that are not tagged). Here’s … --- ## [Config.yml is unable to parse emoji's](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-yml-is-unable-to-parse-emojis/26899)
**Author:** [@adamzerella](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/adamzerella)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-yml-is-unable-to-parse-emojis/26899 "2018-12-04T00:15:23Z")
Writing a comment such as # Comment here is perfectly valid, if you add a emoji to this such as # Comment here 😃 the config doesn’t seem to run and provides no exception message. E.g: docker: - image: circl… --- ## [Config does not conform to schema: {:workflows {:ios\_build {:jobs \[nil nil nil](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-does-not-conform-to-schema-workflows-ios-build-jobs-nil-nil-nil/26671)
**Author:** [@wesleyguirra](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/wesleyguirra)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-does-not-conform-to-schema-workflows-ios-build-jobs-nil-nil-nil/26671 "2018-11-24T03:16:58Z")
Hello everyone I’m trying to run the config below but without success, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong here checked other issues but don’t find something useful. I’m getting this error: Config does not conform to sc… --- ## [Can't update nodejs version on machine executor](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-update-nodejs-version-on-machine-executor/26014)
**Author:** [@alex1](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/alex1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-update-nodejs-version-on-machine-executor/26014 "2018-11-22T09:13:03Z")
I have the following step in my config.yml file. e2e: machine: true working\_directory: \*workspace\_root steps: - checkout - run: name: Install dependencies … --- ## [Multiple database systems seems not to work](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/multiple-database-systems-seems-not-to-work/17478)
**Author:** [@pengend](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/pengend)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/multiple-database-systems-seems-not-to-work/17478 "2017-10-18T13:04:30Z")
Hello, I have a monolithic repository which is compound of two Symfony application, one uses a Postgresql database, the other one uses Mysql. When I tried to setup databases schema through steps, it’ works for the Post… --- ## [Circleci 2.0. Files in artifacts sections does not open in browser](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-2-0-files-in-artifacts-sections-does-not-open-in-browser/16297)
**Author:** [@shevchykH](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/shevchykH)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-2-0-files-in-artifacts-sections-does-not-open-in-browser/16297 "2017-09-06T14:37:11Z")
Hi, I have faced with issue that html file that located in "Artifacts"does not open in browser (chrome). Instead, it downloads to my computer . I am expecting that file will open in a new tab. Here is the example of a… --- ## [Running application with docker-compose for testing](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/running-application-with-docker-compose-for-testing/12450)
**Author:** [@ErikBooij](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/ErikBooij)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/running-application-with-docker-compose-for-testing/12450 "2017-05-06T17:15:42Z")
Hi guys! I've started exploring CircleCI 2.0 and would like to use it to start my PHP/Mysql/Elasticsearch application and run some unit and acceptance tests against it. Now with quite some hassle I've gotten it to up… --- ## [Can't seem to get test manual parallelization to work](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-seem-to-get-test-manual-parallelization-to-work/12249)
**Author:** [@Troop4Christ](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Troop4Christ)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-seem-to-get-test-manual-parallelization-to-work/12249 "2017-04-27T19:19:07Z")
I'm trying to get this feature from the docs to work: https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/parallel-manual-setup/#a-simple-example I went ahead and put this into my test section: override: - case $CIRCLE\_NODE\_INDEX in …