This option requires that a promoted build runs the designated downstream builds successfully. A typical use of this is to nominate downstream test jobs, so that you know a build has good test results before it gets promoted. Multiple jobs can be specified by separating their names by commas.

For example, consider a case where job xyz-test is set as the promotion criteria of job xyz. When xyz #100 is built, this will not be promoted right away as no xyz-test build has run yet. If you configured xyz-test as a downstream build of xyz, the successful completion of xyz #100 would trigger a xyz-test. When this completes successfully, xyz #100 will be promoted (even if other xyz builds happened since then.)