How to use GitLab integration with already existing pipeline?

[jmbluethner]

Hey folks! 👋

I'm in the process of documenting an open source project using Gitbook, and so far it's going pretty good!
However, there's one problem.

Upon connecting Gitbook to GitLab, I saw an automatic "external" pipeline on every merge to main (still don't know why they deprecated master ...) which synced my doc files to Gitbook - So far so good!

But for my project I'm also running a pipeline which tags, builds and release a Docker image. Once I added my .gitlab-ci.yml to implement said pipeline, the external one for Gitbook went missing.

This means, that my doc files no longer get synced 🙁

What would be the right way to re-introduce that external Gitbook pipeline? Maybe by adding it as a stage in my own .gitlab-ci.yml?

Any help would be appreciated!

Have a great day everyone and thanks in advance

[jmbluethner]

Nevermind ... The external pipeline only gets executed when the files within your specified root directory actually change. If they stay the same between commits / merges, the GitBook pipeline will not be triggered.
Case closed