Passing variable between jobs in Azure Pipeline with empty result - variables

Question

I am writing an azure pipeline yml requesting to pass variables between jobs but the variables are not passing through. however, it wasn't successful and it returns an empty variable.
here is my pipeline:
jobs:
- job: UpdateVersion
variables:
terraformRepo: ${{ parameters.terraformRepo }}
pool:
vmImage: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- checkout: self
persistCredentials: true
- checkout: ${{ parameters.terraformRepo }}
- task: AzureCLI#2
displayName: PerformVerUpdate
inputs:
azureSubscription: ${{ parameters.azureSubscriptionName }}
scriptType: bash
scriptLocation: inlineScript
inlineScript: |
echo Step 3 result
echo "Reponame $Reponame"
echo "notify $notify"
echo "pullRequestId $pullRequestId"
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=pullRequestId;isOutput=true;]$pullRequestId"
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=Reponame;isOutput=true;]$Reponame"
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=notify;isOutput=true;]true"
Name: PerformVerUpdate
- job: SlackSuccessNotification
dependsOn: UpdateVersion
condition: and(succeeded(), eq(dependencies.UpdateVersion.outputs['PerformVerUpdate.notify'], 'true'))
pool:
vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
variables:
- group: platform-alerts-webhooks
- name: notify_J1
value: $[ dependencies.UpdateVersion.outputs['PerformVerUpdate.notify'] ]
- name: pullRequestId_J1
value: $[ dependencies.UpdateVersion.outputs['PerformVerUpdate.pullRequestId'] ]
- name: Reponame_J1
value: $[ dependencies.UpdateVersion.outputs['PerformVerUpdate.Reponame'] ]
steps:
- task: AzurePowerShell#5
displayName: Slack Notification
inputs:
pwsh: true
azureSubscription: ${{ parameters.azureSubscriptionName }}
ScriptType: 'InlineScript'
TargetAzurePs: LatestVersion
inline: |
write-host "Reponame $(Reponame_J1)"
write-host "pullRequest $(pullRequestId_J1)"
I've tried so many different syntax for it but the variables are still not able to pass through between both jobs - e.g. The condition is passing Null result to second job "(Expanded: and(True, eq(Null, 'true'))". Could anyone help with this?

Answer 1

Firstly 'Name' should be 'name' in lowercase
Name: PerformVerUpdate
The rest of syntax seems fine(I have tested it on Bash task because I do not have Azure subscription).
If renaming 'Name' does not help I suppose the problem may be that your Bash task is running within AzureCLI#2 task.
Maybe as workaround you could add new Bash task right after AzureCLI#2 and try to set there output variable for next job?