I have multi project pipelines and within my downstream pipeline (e2e) I have defined a chrome job which runs on every push, merge request and nightly scheduled pipeline. I created an almost identical firefox job that I want to run only on the nightly pipeline. The caveat is that upon logging the predefined gitlab variables during the install phase, I saw that the nightly pipeline has CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE = pipeline, instead of scheduled, and this is where all problems arose for me.

The issue is that the firefox job either gets triggered everywhere, or does not get triggered at all.

I tried using
`rules:

• changes
• scheduled
  when: always
• when: manual`

and this results in the firefox job having to be triggered manually everytime.

I tried using
`rules:

• if: ‘$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE = “schedule”‘`

but this just disregards the firefox job in the nightly pipeline because the CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE is pipeline.

I tried using a custom variable by defining it both in my nightly test job using the gitlab UI (variable name: FIREFOX, value: true) and in my gitlab-ci.yml file
variables; FIREFOX: true

then in my firefox job I added
`rules:

• if: $FIREFOX = “true”`

and this didn’t work either.

What am I missing?