The artifacts tab on the build page shows a list of artifacts for the build. Each artifact listed displays a File Name, a File Size, a Created date, a MD5 hash of the file and a Relative Path. The relative path is relative to the workspace directory of the build.
The last column for each artifact listing can differ depending on the state of the build and the artifact type. Artifacts are registered while the stage is executing which happens on the Agent. The artifacts however need to be on the build server to be viewable or downloadable, which means at the end of each stage the agent copies the artifacts back to the build server. You will see a progress bar indicating the artifacts are not yet on the server.
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For XML files you have two additional options to select, "variables" and "nunit". When you open a nunit test output xml file using the nunit view type, you'll see the test output formatted in a tree view.
The The "variables" view type is used to format the build's variable's data into a readable format. Each build automatically registers the build's variables as two artifacts, the machine's enironmental variabels in the format "hostname_Environment.xml" and the Continua specific variables as "VariableNamespaces.xml".
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