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Persyl
Persyl

Reputation: 383

Manually triggered Github Action is always being skipped

I have a working Github Action file that build on commits.

I want to be able to manually trigger a build so I only added "workflow_dispatch" and got the nice option button visible in the GUI where I can select which branch to manually build.

But when I select a branch ("dev") and start the build it always get skipped?!

The yml-file is both in my "main" branch and in the desired branch "dev"

My yml-file looks like below and "workflow_dispatch" is the only thing I have changed:

name: Build for dev

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - dev
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, closed]
    branches:
      - dev

jobs:
  build_and_deploy_job:
    if: github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action != 'closed')
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Build and Deploy Job
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          submodules: true
      - name: Build And Deploy
        id: builddeploy
        uses: Azure/[email protected]
        with:
          app_build_command: "npm run build-dev"
          azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{ secrets.AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN_XXXXX }}
          repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Used for Github integrations (i.e. PR comments)
          action: "upload"
          ###### Repository/Build Configurations - These values can be configured to match you app requirements. ######
          # For more information regarding Static Web App workflow configurations, please visit: https://aka.ms/swaworkflowconfig
          app_location: "/" # App source code path
          api_location: "api" # Api source code path - optional
          output_location: "dist" # Built app content directory - optional
          ###### End of Repository/Build Configurations ######
        env:
          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

  close_pull_request_job:
    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'closed'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Close Pull Request Job
    steps:
      - name: Close Pull Request
        id: closepullrequest
        uses: Azure/[email protected]
        with:
          azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{ secrets.AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN_XXXXX }}
          action: "close"

Does anyone know why build is being skipped, or where I can see the reason for it?

UPDATE: Screenshot from skipped build: enter image description here

UPDATED! I found solution myself! I had an if statement in "build_and_deploy_job" so I needed to change it to:

if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action != 'closed')

Upvotes: 7

Views: 4479

Answers (1)

Wallace
Wallace

Reputation: 17369

I had the same symptom -- my manually run workflow was being marked as "Skipped."

In my case, I had the following condition on each job. This condition only ran the job if the previous workflow in the chain was successful:

if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}

The above was not satisfied when the workflow was started manually. The following worked for me:

if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}

The above says, "run this job if it was manually started or the parent workflow succeeded."

Upvotes: 7

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