We are working on making the Add Step functionality much better. The idea is to show built-in steps, community step templates (from http://library.octopus.com/) and custom step templates in one central location. Please let us know what you think by leaving your comment below.

I regularly use nested variables to minimise the number of variable changes I must make between environments. Consider something like this:

data source=#{Database.Server};initial catalog=#{Database.Name};#{Database.Auth};

This allows me to just specify simple variables for the DB server, the DB name and the type of auth being used, without having to construct a connectionstring every time (and probably making the odd mistake).

It would be great if I could see the fully-evaluated variables when i click "Show variables" on a release - or at least have a switch between the raw variables and evaluated variables.

A flag on the Email template step to send the email as High Priority. We use the Email template step (when any step fails) to notify that the deployment failed and it would be more convenient if we could set the flag for high priority. I could create my own powershell step, but I thought the out of the box email template step could use this feature.

Current configuration (v4.0+) uses dropdown control for Releases list.
Previous implementation had combo box control and it allowed to do a quick search for large releases lists.

Would love to have this feature back since currently it is not possible to do a 'contains' search among differently named releases.

Logging in always takes a few clicks with the Guest/Account question. As a dev I never want to see the guest option. Can there be a way of preventing it showing - perhaps via a cookie such as "Remember this choice"?

Provide an additional option in Configure dashboard to allow selecting project groups instead of just individual projects. This way if an additional project gets added to the group it automatically appears on your dashboard rather than having to look for and add new projects to the filtered list.

The users view that pages user into n number of pages, makes it a hassle to find a user when you have 100 or more users.

I would like to be able to search for a user, and search across username, displayname and email address.

As it is now if you can change the deployment process, you can also set scripts to run on the Octopus Server. We want people to be able to change the deployment process, but not to run scripts on the Octopus Server. A permission or feature-toggle to restrict that option would be great.

While typing in the value of a sensitive variable, the complete value is always visible while typing it in.

It would be more secure if there is an option to obfuscate the value while typing it in.

It would be nice to be able to add notes or an alert to tenants so that we have some warning about release windows or contact people against a tenant.

as an admin, i'd like to receive email notification of failed tasks such as health checks or other automated tasks.

And please leave a support or contact form so that we can reach out to you with non-technical questions also.

The SAVE button is in the bottom left on the deploy process config page and upper right for the variables page.

Add a simple summary to the license screen showing how many projects / users / deployment targets are "used" to make it easier to see how much capacity is left in the license and where the capacity is used.

Love the filter on the dashboard (v3.3.15), however, we have 75+ projects across 6 groups but it only shows the first 50. It's very confusing which of the first 50 it actually shows. I.E. different groups are missing things... It needs to show them all, unless I customize my display. I fear I am going to miss something that didn't automatically deploy - looking for the red box.

Currently the new build steps in TFS 2015 for octopus, have the same image/icon and it's not easy to identify which type of step it is.

I suggest create different icons for each type:

• Package Application


• Push Packages to Octopus


• Create Octopus Release


• Deploy Octopus Release

As an IT compliance officer I need to be able to view the Audit page in Octopus Deploy but I don’t want to be able to make changes to the Octopus System. Please create an “Audit Viewer” role that has appropriate access to the Audit page separate from AdministerSystem