After you have launched Windows Tray Notifier from the Start > Programs > Windows Tray Notifier and specified your TeamCity username and password, the Notifier icon showing the state of your projects and build configurations appears in Windows System Tray. If you have no projects and build configurations to monitor, the icon represents a question mark. After you have configured a list of build configurations and projects and their state changes, the status icon changes to reflect the change as well. The table below represents these possible states.
Icon
Meaning
Build is successful
Build failed and nobody has taken responsibility
Some team member has taken responsibility for the build failure
The person responsible for the build failure has submitted a fix, but the build has not executed successfully yet
Build configuration is paused, and builds are not triggered automatically
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The Notifier icon always shows the status of the last completed build of your watched project or build configurations, unless you select Notify when the first error occurs option on the Windows Tray Notifier settings page. In this case, the Notifier does not wait for the failing build to finish, and it displays a failed build icon as soon as the running build fails a test.
When you click the Notifier icon, a Quick View window opens:
Click the results or changes links to navigate to the Build Results and Changes pages in TeamCity web interface, respectively, and investigate the desired issues deeper.
If you right-click the icon, you can access all Windows Tray Notifier features described in table below.
Option
Description
Open Quick View Window
Displays the Quick View window.
Go to "Projects" Page...
Opens the Projects tab.
Go to "My Changes" Page...
Opens the My Changes tab.
Configure Watched Builds...
Opens the Windows Tray Notifier settings page where you can select the build configurations to monitor and notification events.
Auto Upgrade
Select this option to allow the program to automatically upgrade.
Run on Startup
Select this option to automatically launch the program when windows boots.
About
Displays the information on the program's splash screen.
Logout
Use this function to log out of the TeamCity server. This will allow you to a different one.
Exit
Quits the program.
Besides the state icons, Windows tray notifier displays pop-up alerts with a brief build results information on the particular build configurations and notification events.
When a pop-up notification appears, you can click the link in it to go the Build results page for more details and investigate the desired issues.
