---
title: "Outputting build status from FinalBuilder to TeamCity"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/5/19/outputting-build-status-from-finalbuilder-to-teamcity.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/5/19/outputting-build-status-from-finalbuilder-to-teamcity.html"
published: "2009-05-19T04:01:56"
updated: "2009-05-19T04:01:56"
tags: ["Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "as a personal reference – next time I need FinalBuilder to output data into TeamCIty (such as current build status etc..) : here is the documentation that explains the simple text formatting rules All you need to do in…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Outputting build status from FinalBuilder to TeamCity

By Roy Osherove May 19, 2009 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 19, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

as a personal reference – next time I need [FinalBuilder](http://www.finalbuilder.com/) to output data into TeamCIty (such as current build status etc..) :

[here is the documentation that explains the simple text formatting rules](http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TCD4/Build+Script+Interaction+with+TeamCity)

All you need to do in FB is to use “Comment” tasks and output the text you need based on these rules into the console.

TeamCity will pick them up automatically.

of course, this will also work with all other custom runners you might be building for TeamCity

## Lessons on this topic

- [Custom Action Scripts in Powershell & Javascript](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/automating-all-the-things-with-finalbuilder/custom-action-scripts-in-powershell-and-javascript/) · Automating All the Things with FinalBuilder
- [Invoking FinalBuilder From TeamCity](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/automating-all-the-things-with-finalbuilder/invoking-finalbuilder-from-teamcity/) · Automating All the Things with FinalBuilder

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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