How to add icons to Jenkins Blue-Ocean Pipelines Stages and Parameters form?

Question

How can we make visual updates to the Pipelines and Parameter forms?

Pipeline

• I'd like to add visual representation on each of the steps
  • Maybe add an icon to the descriptions
  • Show the stage names in bold or other ways to highlight

Parameters form

• Each of the form descriptions are very hard to read as the list of parameters grow.

Questions

• Is it possible to add images?
• Is it possible to add icons or bold text to the pipeline stages?
• It it possible to add icons or bold text to the parameters form?

Answer 1

Workaround with Caveat

• There's no simple plugin that supports formatting the blue-ocean pipeline stages and form.
• I could add icons to both the Pipeline Stage names and Parameters form using unicode characters and it actually gives a visual aid to all the values.

This is NOT a complete solution but a nice workaround for our requirements: using the unicode emojis in the values. Since Java Strings supports unicode values in Strings, Jenkins can handle the values properly.

I used the site https://emojipedia.org to select which values to use. For instance, the value for https://emojipedia.org/ship/ is 🚢.

The only caveat is that emojis have a different visual representation on different devices as described at emojipedia.org.

Jenkins Pipeline with Icons

Jenkins Parameters form with Icons