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 ### Declarative Pipeline jobs
 The example below configures the GitLab connection and job triggers. It also sends build status back to GitLab.
 
+**NOTE: You will need to run this job manually once, in order for Jenkins to read and set up the trigger configuration. Otherwise webhooks will fail to trigger the job.**
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 ```
 pipeline {
     agent any