Windows Tray Notifier

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The Windows Tray Notifier is deprecated in favor of the Browser Notifier extension.

The Windows Tray Notifier is an utility which allows monitoring the status of specific build configurations in the system tray via popup alerts and status icons.

Installing Windows Tray Notifier

To install the Windows Tray Notifier:

  1. In the top right corner of the TeamCity web UI, click the arrow next to your username, and select My Settings & Tools.

  2. In the TeamCity Tools area, click the download link under Windows tray notifier.

  3. Run the TrayNotifierInstaller.msi file and follow the instructions.

Configuring Windows Tray Notifier

To launch Windows Tray Notifier, run the Start > Programs > JetBrains TeamCity Tray Notifier menu.

When the application started, you need to connect and log in to your server:

  1. Specify your TeamCity server URL and credentials to log in to it.

  2. Wait for the notifier to connect to your TeamCity server. Once the connection is established, you'll be prompted to configure notification rules in the My Settings & Tools | Notification rules | Windows Tray Notifier section:

    Windows Tray Notifier

  3. When Windows Tray Notifier is launched, the status icon in the Windows System Tray appears.

Windows Tray Notifier UI

Status Icons

After you have launched Windows Tray Notifier and specified your TeamCity username and password, the Notifier icon showing the state of your projects and build configurations appears in Windows System Tray.

If you have no projects and build configurations to monitor, the icon represents a question mark. After you have configured a list of build configurations and projects and their state changes, the status icon changes to reflect the change as well. The table below represents these possible states.

Icon

Meaning

trayNotifierBuildSuccessfulIcon.png

Build is successful

trayNotifierBuildFailedIcon.png

Build failed and nobody is investigating the failure

errorWithResp.gif

A team member has started investigating the build failure

fixed.gif

The person who investigated the build failure has submitted a fix, but the build has not executed successfully yet

paused.gif

Build configuration is paused, and builds are not triggered automatically

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The Notifier icon always shows the status of the last completed build of your watched project or build configurations, unless you select to be notified when the first build error occurs option on the Windows Tray Notifier settings page. In this case, the notifier does not wait for the failing build to finish, and it displays a failed build icon as soon as the running build fails a test.

If you right-click the status icon, you can access all Windows Tray Notifier features described in table below.

Option

Description

Open Quick View Window

Displays the Quick View window.

Go to "Projects" Page

Opens the Projects tab.

Go to "My Changes" Page

Opens the My Changes tab.

Configure Watched Builds

Opens the Windows Tray Notifier settings page where you can select the build configurations to monitor and notification events.

Auto Upgrade

Select this option to allow the program to automatically upgrade.

Run on Startup

Select this option to automatically launch the program when windows boots.

About

Displays the information on the program's splash screen.

Logout

Use this function to log out of the TeamCity server. This will allow you to a different one.

Exit

Quits the program.

Quick View Window

On left-clicking the Notifier icon, the TeamCity Quick View window appears displaying the status of the watched projects / build configurations:

Windows Tray Notifier Status

Click the build results (Success in the image above) or changes links to navigate to the Build Results and Changes pages respectively in the TeamCity web interface for details.

Pop-up Notification

Besides the state icons, Windows tray notifier displays pop-up alerts with a brief build results information on the particular build configurations and notification events.

Windows Tray Notifier Pop-up Window

When a pop-up notification appears, you can click the link in it to go the Build results page for details.

Windows Tray Notifier Logs

Since TeamCity 2017.2 Windows Tray Notifier logs events and warnings to the %ProgramData% or %AppData% (since 2017.2.1) JetBrains\TeamCity\TrayNotifier\logs directory containing the following files:

  • teamcity-tray.log with common details

  • teamcity-update.log with update details.

You can tune the logger verbosity via the /verbosity command line switch: debug logs can be enabled using the following command: