Voilà! This opens up the following options section
Now you can change your workspace and build directory to any other location on your machine. Jenkins provides 3 predefined variables that can be used to specify the new location:
${JENKINS_HOME} — Jenkins home directory
${ITEM_ROOTDIR} — Root directory of a job for which the workspace is allocated
${ITEM_FULLNAME} — ‘/’-separated job name, like “foo/bar”
The default value for the “Workspace Root Directory” is ${ITEM_ROOTDIR}/workspace and for the “Build Record Root Directory” it’s ${ITEM_ROOTDIR}/builds.Some Notes
Please be aware, that if you change your workspace to a different location, the contents of the “old” workspace directory are not copied over to the new workspace. Doing this on OSX could require to change the owner of the newly created workspace. So, if you encounter permission issues during your next build, then have a look at the new location.