New roles have awkward names and cannot be changed

I’ve been trying to add machine roles to a new Octopus install and when adding they show in the dropdown as ’ (custom ‘new’ role). The problem is that the “(custom ‘new’ role)” becomes part of the role name!

I’m pretty sure that’s a bug as I can’t imagine why anyone would want that.

A quick investigation also shows that roles cannot be renamed across the board (and requires direct DB access to do at all) so I think one or the other of these issues needs to be fixed (inability to choose name at the start or to rename it after the fact).

HI Jared,

Thanks for getting in touch. We have a bug opened for this issue right here: https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/2828

We have just increased its priority and it should be fixed in the next version or the one after. If you read that github issue’s text, it says that you can workaround this by using [Enter] to save the new role.

Best regards,
Dalmiro

Thank you for this, all my new role names were making me go crazy!