Add way to define a long string workflow_dispatch input #12882
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This is good feedback @gabrielmoncea - I'll talk with the team about it and make sure that it is on the backlog. |
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@ethomson : Is there any news? |
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I am also experiencing same problem is there any update yet? |
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Another year... @ethomson do you think you could give the issue a gentle poke internally? (Assuming you still work for Github!) |
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Any updates that can be provided here? I'm running into the same issue. |
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any updates on this? |
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+1 |
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Same, would be nice to have |
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same issue |
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Currently, our workaround is to send run: |
rm -rf artifacts
mkdir artifacts
echo -e "$CHANGES_LOG" >> artifacts/changes_log.txt
echo -e "$INTERNAL_NOTES" >> artifacts/internal_notes.txt
echo "Changes log:"
cat artifacts/changes_log.txt
echo ""
echo "Internal notes:"
cat artifacts/internal_notes.txt
echo ""You can use your text editor to prepare the notes, then replace the newline character with |
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Hello @ethomson. We are having a use case that requires a multiline string as input. Any updates on this ? |
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Would love an update here as well. We're looking to add a changelog field on the fly for workflow runs and a single-line string is not good enough for that. |
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any update on this? It would be incredibly helpful |
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+1 here as well. We have a similar need for multi line release notes/comments |
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+1. Example: sql script. |
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+1 |
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+1 the main reason I'm not using workflows for creating my releases is the lack of a multi-line textarea. It makes adding changelogs/release notes an annoyance. Sure, formatting a single line string of text is managable, but it is an unnecessary step, so I may as well manually create them myself |
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Sorry for Actions Product being quiet here, I will add this to our papercuts backlog that we are working against over the next 12 months. I cannot commit we will get to it :) but know that we are still aware (it has not been forgotten). |
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it has been exactly 1 year now, could you please provide an update as to whether this is still in the backlog, abandoned, or in progress? |
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Yes please :) |
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Any updates on this? |
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As work-around, you can change the element type with developer tools and paste multiline string just fine. It's usable in actions as is. - <input
+ <textarea
class="form-control
input-contrast
input-sm"
type="text"
id="input_0"
required=""
name="inputs[message]"
value="">
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That's an excellent workaround @gabimoncha and also shows it should be pretty simple for Github to implement this feature. 🤞🏻 |
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That would work....but that's not a great workaround IMO. Another alternative is to take what you want to have in the input, and put it into a string escape tool like https://appdevtools.com/json-escape-unescape. This is what my team is doing. But both of these workarounds are things that have to be done every time the workflow is run. |
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+1 |
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+1 |
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+100 |
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+1 |
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+1. I too want to add release notes as an input to a workflow_dispatch trigger. I need multiline support. |
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+1 |
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+1 |
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+1 |
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+1 |
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Unbelievable that a simple change from |
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3.5 years... so far. |
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+1. with all these AI prompts and stuff, it will be convenient to input a whole prompt to the github workflow in text area while manually triggering an automated workflow. |
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This would be a huge help! We'd like to use this to take in release notes to our workflows, but that's pretty tough to do without line breaks. |
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This would be incredibly helpful! The workaround of changing the |
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They can use copilot to fix this issue! |
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I'm trying to add new lines to the string input but the input box is unusable.
It would be nice to also add the option of
inputortextareawhere the user can increase the height of the box and pressingEnterwould add a new line in the fieldBeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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