Launches do not get merged on parallel execution even though autoMerge flag is set

[noopurmath3]

Hello,

I executing parallel tests to gitlab CI. I have configured the project to publish reports to a report portal instance. From what I understood from the documentation, setting "autoMerge" option to true should merge reports for all launches of current execution into a single launch on report portal. However, that is not what I am observing. I still see launch for each node that is executing the tests.
I also tried passing --ci-build-id value as $CI_PIPELINE_ID as well. That did not help either.
Please let me know if there is anything wrong I am doing or if my understanding of the working is incorrect.

Please refer following files for details:
cypress.config.js:

// const { defineConfig } = require('cypress');
const registerReportPortalPlugin = require('@reportportal/agent-js-cypress/lib/plugin');
module.exports = {
  projectId: 'xxxxx',
  // reporter: 'cypress-mochawesome-reporter',
  // reporter: "@reportportal/agent-js-cypress",
  // reporterOptions: {
  //   overwrite: false
  // },
  reporter: '@reportportal/agent-js-cypress',
  reporterOptions: {
    endpoint: 'https://reportportal-<some report portal instance>/api/v1',
    apiKey: '<api key>',
    launch: '<name>',
    project: '<name>',
    autoMerge: true,
    parallel: true,
    description: 'Test description',
  },
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      return registerReportPortalPlugin(on, config);
    },
  },
};

Execution command:
npx cypress run --browser chrome --record --parallel --ci-build-id $CI_PIPELINE_ID

[noopurmath3]

Has anyone else faced this issue and found a solution for this?
Highly appreciate any help on this.

Thanks!

[AmsterGet]

Hello @noopurmath3 !
The CI_BUILD_ID variable must be provided as an ENVIRONMENT variable because Cypress itself does not share this option with the reporter.
Please let me know if this helps!

[AmsterGet]

As an alternative approach you can follow the 1st step, described here. Variant of its implementation available in this repo.