Issue Automation

Automate issue and pull request processing

This is a reusable workflow to automate repetitve issue and pull request tasks. It adds issues and pull requests to a GitHub project specified by the calling workflow.

Getting Started

To use this workflow, first, create a personal access token (PAT) with project permission. Add the PAT to your repository as a secret.

Then, call this workflow with the uses key of a job in your project's workflow file.

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]
  pull_request:
    types: [opened]
jobs:
  issue-automation:
    name: Issue Automation
    uses: brobeson/IssueAutomation/.github/workflows/issue_automation.yaml@v1
    secrets
      personal_access_token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
    with:
      project_owner: you
      project_id: 42

Inputs

Key	Required	Type	Description
personal_access_token	yes	string	The PAT you created and added to your repository. This must be in the secrets object in the calling job.
project_owner	yes	string	The account name of the user who owns the project to add issues to. Organization projects are not supported.
project_id	yes	number	The ID number of the project to update.

Steps

The workflow runs the following steps.

1. Add new issues to the specified project.
   The PAT must project permission in the calling repository.

Issue Tracking

Report a bug | Request a new step | Update an existing step