Error while executing task from yaml build pipeline

[jsteenbeek]

First of, thanks for all you do Colin. ReplaceTokens is one of our most used tasks!

When using the ReplaceTokens task from a yaml build pipeline I get the message that the task name is ambiguous, and Azure DevOps is unable to distinguish between tasks "a8515ec8-7254-4ffd-912c-86772e2b5962" and "9240b5c1-a1b2-4799-9325-e071c63236fb".

Not sure where the other task is coming from, 9240b5c1-a1b2-4799-9325-e071c63236fb is yours.

As a workaround I can refer to the task by the name '9240b5c1-a1b2-4799-9325-e071c63236fb@1'. The editor doesn't like it, but it gets picked up by the build correctly.

[jsteenbeek]

Googling the GUID led me to this one, which somebody else installed in our tenant.
https://github.com/qetza/vsts-replacetokens-task

Leaving this issue open for now, since I also see others running into this;
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=colinsalmcorner.colinsalmcorner-buildtasks&ssr=false#review-details

[colindembovsky]

Hi @jsteenbeek - thanks for the info. According to this doc correct way to disambiguate is to qualify the task like so:

- task: colinsalmcorner.colinsalmcorner-buildtasks.ReplaceTokens@1

but this doesn't seem to work. I'm getting some help from the Product Group and will respond here (and in my readme) about how to disambiguate correctly.

[colindembovsky]

@jsteenbeek Finally got this figured out - there is an (undocumented) required field for the fully qualified name. To disambiguate, either use the GUID of the task (which would look nasty) or use:

- task: colinsalmcorner.colinsalmcorner-buildtasks.replace-tokens-task.replaceTokens@1

I'm going to update my docs to include this too!

[jsteenbeek]

Works like a charm, thanks!

[aruray-ms]

Also, if someone is using the other one and end up here this should help ReplaceTokens@3

- task: qetza.replacetokens.replacetokens-task.replacetokens@3
  displayName: 'Replace tokens'
  inputs:
    targetFiles: |
      **/*.config
      **/*.json => outputs/*.json

[dungphanpm]

Same here. I faced issue with message:
Job smartcare_cicd_pipeline: Step task reference is invalid. The task name FlutterInstall is ambiguous. Specify one of the following identifiers to resolve the ambiguity: aloisdeniel.flutter.flutter-install.FlutterInstall, Hey24sheep.flutter.flutter-install.FlutterInstall
And fixed by:

      - task: aloisdeniel.flutter.flutter-install.FlutterInstall@0
        displayName: "Setup flutter"
        inputs:
          channel: 'stable'