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Writing a good condition in GitHub workflows

Mar 4, 2025 · 3 min read · Conditions are used to control job or step execution and are defined by if YAML key like this: jobs: first-job: if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }} #<---- conditions runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout ...

A Comparison of Calling vs. Dispatching Workflows in GitHub Actions

Feb 18, 2025 · 9 min read · There are two types of execution units in GitHub Actions. One is called a workflow, which organizes global pipeline execution into smaller units like jobs and steps. The second one is called a custom/composed action, and it can represent one (or mult...

Sending data between GitHub workflows

Dec 23, 2024 · 6 min read · In my last article, How to Send More Than Ten Inputs with Workflow Dispatch, I described how to get around that ten inputs limit with an extended JavaScript action.However all inputs size combined is also limited to max. 65 kbytes in total: The max...

How to Send More Than Ten Inputs with Workflow Dispatch

Dec 6, 2024 · 7 min read · There is a limit of ten inputs on the number of inputs you can send when dispatching a GitHub workflow. The maximum number of top-level properties for inputs is 10. However, with highly parameterized workflows, I quickly hit the limit. In my case...

How to connect dispatching and dispatched workflows

Nov 8, 2024 · 10 min read · In the last article in this series I mentioned that by switching from reusable workflows to dispatching we can lost some navigation clarity. Dispatched workflow has no connection about its dispatcher, so it might be difficult to search what dispatche...