# Any way to pass metadata directly to a triggered build?
**URL:** https://forum.buildkite.community/t/any-way-to-pass-metadata-directly-to-a-triggered-build/1128
**Category:** Features Requests
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/any-way-to-pass-metadata-directly-to-a-triggered-build/1128 "2020-06-29T11:31:48Z")
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### Author:  [@SeanR](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/SeanR)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/any-way-to-pass-metadata-directly-to-a-triggered-build/1128/1 "2020-06-29T11:31:48Z")
Hi all,
We have some use cases where we would really really love to pass metadata set in a build into builds that are triggered by the initial build.
AFAICT, right now you can either:
- Pass through the current value of an environment variable, eg:
> ```
> - trigger: "app-deploy"
> build:
> message: "${BUILDKITE_MESSAGE}"
>
> ```
- Or you can trigger with statically-defined metadata, eg:
> ```
> - trigger: "app-deploy"
> build:
> meta_data:
> release-version: "1.1"
>
> ```
But you cannot just pass through the current value of metadata, eg:
> ```
> - trigger: "app-deploy"
> build:
> meta_data:
> release-version
>
> ```
Right now, we hack this via a convoluted dynamic step insertion where we read the current value of the metadata and upload a dynamic trigger step that creates a trigger with a static metadata value, but we would really love to not have to do this.
As for specific use cases, we have a large set of pipelines that roll updates out to clusters that are all triggered in parallel from a single `build-and-push-containers` pipeline. We need to pass through the tag of the build that was just performed by the top-level pipeline, and for various reasons, metadata is generally a better fit for this information than env vars.
This has come up a few times in the past as well:
- [Pass metadata to triggered pipelines with pure YAML](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/pass-metadata-to-triggered-pipelines-with-pure-yaml/875)
- [Forward meta-data to triggered build](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/forward-meta-data-to-triggered-build/778)
And I was wondering if there were any plans to enable this sort of functionality in the future?
Thanks!
-Sean
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### Author:  [@Jason](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Jason)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/any-way-to-pass-metadata-directly-to-a-triggered-build/1128/2 "2020-06-29T22:37:41Z")
Thanks for raising this @SeanR!
This is excellent feedback, and as you mentioned, there have been others asking for this feature.
We are actively discussing this functionality at the moment, and I will take your suggestion back and share it with the team.