Jenkins Copy Artifact unable to find folder/multiProjectPipeline/branchWithSlash

Question

I have Jenkins LTS 2.60.2 on Windows Server 2016 and using these plugins:

Folders plugin (6.1.0)
Copy Artifact plugin (1.38.1)
Pipeline plugin (2.5) + all dependent pipeline sub-plugins
Various other dependent plugins...

See Pipeline to use artifacts from 2 projects associated by the same git branch name for more details about my setup, but to sum it up I have these items:

playground (a folder created with the Folders plugin to group all these following items)
frontend (multibranch pipeline)
backend (multibranch pipeline)
configure (pipeline with a parameter called BRANCH_NAME)

The frontend and backend git repos, both have a branch called master and one called release/2017.2.

The idea is to call the configure pipeline automatically after each successful build, passing the git branch name. Automatically triggering the configure pipeline works.

What doesn't work and I need your help to fix, is the step inside the configure pipeline to copy the artifacts from a multibranchPipeline/specificBranch.

If for the BRANCH_NAME parameter (or the upstream pipeline) is master it works. If BRANCH_NAME is: release/2017.2 I get this error:

ERROR: Unable to find project for artifact copy: playground/frontend/release%2f2017.2 This may be due to incorrect project name or permission settings; see help for project name in job configuration. Finished: FAILURE

The configure pipeline looks like this:

node {
  stage('Prepare') {
      def projectname = "playground/frontend/" + "${BRANCH_NAME}".replace("/", "%2f")
      step([$class: 'CopyArtifact', projectName: "${projectname}", selector: [$class: 'StatusBuildSelector', stable: false]])
  }
  stage('Archive') {
      archiveArtifacts '**'
  }
}

As you can see I already replace / with %2f (it's needed).

If I don't use the "playground" folder (all my pipelines as is, not inside a folder item), it works. If I use the folder and use the master branch, it works. It doesn't work if I use the folder and a branch name like 2017.2. What am I doing wrong? Can you help making it work? Of well if it's a bug (I searched in https://issues.jenkins-ci.org and found some bugs where a similar setup with folder doesn't work, but they have been fixed... so I really wonder...) in the copy artifact plugin, please file the bug and share the link here, so we can all monitor its progress...

Thank you.

Jenkins Copy Artifact unable to find folder/multiProjectPipeline/branchWithSlash

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