not able to set up plasticSCM with jenkins

[prince]

Not sure how to make LDAP/cloud credentials work with plasticSCM. could someone please help. Please check the error screenshot below. in the plugin doc it says specify credentials using the jenkins credentials API. what does that even mean?

[trx]

You might need to specify a valid selector (basically the way you tell the plugin what branch in which repository from which server you want to pull)

example (from the plugin page):

repository "myRepo@my.plasticscm.server.com:8087"
  path "/"
    smartbranch "/main/scm1773"

The credentials is a safe way to save your login credentials in jenkins, so you don't need to fill it in plaintext there. (see: https://github.com/jenkinsci/credentials-plugin/blob/master/docs/user.adoc)