The Acquire Variable Lock action can be used to acquire a write lock on Configuration, Project and Application variables. These are the variables that you can edit manually on the server and are referred to as Server variables. Once a write lock is acquired no other builds can modify the value of the server variable until the lock is released, either at the end of the build or by another action.
Acquire Variable Lock
Name
A friendly name for this action (will be displayed in the actions workflow area).
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This drop down contains a list of Configuration, Project and Application variables accessible to the configuration. See Variables for details on how to create a variable. Note that Expression variables cannot be modified and are therefore not listed.
Options
Release write lock at the end of stage
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