Skip Deliver and Deploy when no app artifacts exist

RELEASENOTES.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ### Issues
 
 - Issue 1915 CICD fails on releases/26.x branch - '26.x' cannot be recognized as a semantic version string
+- Issue 2126 Deliver and Deploy actions now skip execution when no app artifacts are found, preventing errors on initial commits
 
 ### The default pull request trigger is changing
 

Scenarios/DeliveryTargets.md

@@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ Your custom delivery script receives a hash table with the following parameters:
 
 > **Note:** The folder parameters (`*Folder`) may be `$null` if no artifacts of that type were found. The plural versions (`*Folders`) contain arrays of all matching folders across different build modes.
 
+> **Important:** The delivery step is automatically skipped at the workflow level when no app artifacts are available. This means your custom delivery script will not be executed if no app artifacts were built. This behavior prevents errors on initial commits, failed builds, or branches without code changes that produce artifacts.
+
 ### Branch-Specific Delivery
 
 Configure different delivery targets for different branches:

Templates/AppSource App/.github/workflows/CICD.yaml

@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Deploy to Business Central
         id: Deploy
+        if: hashFiles('.artifacts/**/*.app') != ''
         uses: microsoft/AL-Go-Actions/Deploy@main
         env:
           Secrets: '${{ steps.ReadSecrets.outputs.Secrets }}'
@@ -391,6 +392,7 @@ jobs:
           getSecrets: '${{ matrix.deliveryTarget }}Context'
 
       - name: Deliver
+        if: hashFiles('.artifacts/**/*.app') != ''
         uses: microsoft/AL-Go-Actions/Deliver@main
         env:
           Secrets: '${{ steps.ReadSecrets.outputs.Secrets }}'

Templates/Per Tenant Extension/.github/workflows/CICD.yaml

@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Deploy to Business Central
         id: Deploy
+        if: hashFiles('.artifacts/**/*.app') != ''
         uses: microsoft/AL-Go-Actions/Deploy@main
         env:
           Secrets: '${{ steps.ReadSecrets.outputs.Secrets }}'
@@ -405,6 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           getSecrets: '${{ matrix.deliveryTarget }}Context'
 
       - name: Deliver
+        if: hashFiles('.artifacts/**/*.app') != ''
         uses: microsoft/AL-Go-Actions/Deliver@main
         env:
           Secrets: '${{ steps.ReadSecrets.outputs.Secrets }}'

Workshop/ContinuousDelivery.md

@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ For detailed step-by-step instructions, configuration examples, and troubleshoot
 
 Custom delivery will be handled in an advanced part of this workshop later.
 
+## Important Note: Automatic Skip Behavior
+
+Delivery jobs automatically skip execution when no app artifacts are available.
+
+This skip behavior prevents delivery errors and ensures that delivery targets are only invoked when there are actual artifacts to deliver. You'll see the delivery step appear as skipped in the workflow summary when this occurs.
+
 OK, so **CD** stands for **Continuous Delivery**, I thought it was **Continuous Deployment**? Well, it is actually both, so let's talk about **Continuous Deployment**...
 
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Workshop/ContinuousDeployment.md

@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ Paste the value from the clipboard into the "Value" field of the **AuthContext**
 
 AL-Go can also be setup for custom deployment when you want to deploy to non-SaaS environments. More about this in the advanced section.
 
+## Important Note: Automatic Skip Behavior
+
+Deployment jobs automatically skip execution when no app artifacts are available.
+
+This skip behavior prevents deployment errors and ensures that environments are only targeted when there are actual artifacts to deploy. You'll see the deployment step appear as skipped in the workflow summary when this occurs.
+
 This section was about Continuous Deployment, but you might not want to deploy to production environments continuously - how can we publish to production on demand?
 
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