# How to Work With Artifact Rules

In this tutorial, we’ll talk about artifact rules in TeamCity. Artifact rules are simple, but there are a few nuances to consider.

In this build, when we hover over the artifact icon, we can see that there are two artifacts with no folder structure: the application log file and a Selenium .mp4 recording.

When we go over to **Build Configuration settings | Artifact paths**, we can see that both artifacts come from a directory: `calculator-service/artifacts/*`.

There are different options available to specify [Artifact paths](/content/help/teamcity/configuring-general-settings.html#Artifact+Paths/index.html). For instance,

```
+:**/* => target_directory
-:directory1 => target_directory
```

will tell TeamCity to publish all files except for `directory1` into the `target_directory`.

In our example, we’re telling TeamCity to include everything inside the calculator directory and then put it into an artifact folder that every build has. This folder might be stored on Amazon S3 or any other storage provider.

These two lines are equivalent:

Let’s specify a different artifact path. Instead of including everything in the `artifacts` subfolder, we’re going to tell TeamCity to move the files to `another_directory`. We’re also going to exclude every `.log` file from being copied to the storage.

Since these rules are additive, we’re telling TeamCity to include every file and move it to another directory. In addition to this, we’re also telling TeamCity to exclude `.log` files.

To finish it off, let’s add another rule:

```
+:calculator-service/**/application.log => hello_world/whatever.log
```

With this rule, we’re telling TeamCity to take the application log `application.log` from every subdirectory `**` in the `calculator-service` directory and put it into the `hello_world` folder. We’re also telling TeamCity to rename the `application.log` file to `whatever.log`.

Once we save the changes and run the build, we can see that our artifact storage paths have changed. We now have different folders and subdirectories that our artifacts are stored in:

Make sure to check out our other tutorials on [creating your first build pipeline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4kCMOehrqs) and [sending build information](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0oj7mOcNvc) to external platforms like Jira.

Happy building!

For more information, see our [TeamCity artifact dependency documentation](/content/help/teamcity/artifact-dependencies.html).

Learn [what an artifact repository is](/content/teamcity/ci-cd-guide/concepts/artifact-repository/index.html) in the TeamCity CI/CD Guide.