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When calling a reference job, there is no ability to pass dynamic filters to it, in effect having a type of inheritance or filter override.

In a scenario where you have a a job that executes on Nodes A,B,C, one at a time, the job will execute step one on NodeA, then the reference job will be called in step 2 which is going to execute on Nodes A,B,C (if that's the filter) and it's going to back to step 3 executing on NodeA. You should be able to pass a dynamic filter to to a reference job.

For example, a ${nodes.matched} or a ${node.current} dynamic variable that could be passed would resolve this issue. ${node.current} in particular I think would be more useful, specifically for a "Node-Oriented" workflows. The general scenario where this would be useful is where you have your scripts broken down into small jobs, which creates a lot of reusable components. This way you can create a "meta" job and target it to a set of nodes (tags), but execute sequentially.

Thanks,
Arthur