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Basic Workflow

Basic Workflow #42

# This is a basic workflow that is manually triggered
# Display name of workflow
name: Basic Workflow
# Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI or API.
on:
workflow_dispatch:
# Inputs the workflow accepts.
inputs:
name:
# Friendly description to be shown in the UI instead of 'name'
description: 'Person to greet'
# Default value if no value is explicitly provided
default: 'World'
# Input has to be provided for the workflow to run
required: true
type: string
city:
description: "Favorite city"
required: true
default: "Tupelo"
type: choice
options:
- New York
- Seattle
- Tupelo
fav-color-blue:
description: "Is your favorite color blue"
required: true
type: boolean
# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
# This workflow contains a single job called "greet"
greet:
# The type of runner that the job will run on, in this case a Linus hosted runner
runs-on:
- ubuntu-latest
# Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
steps:
# Runs a single command using the runners shell
- name: Send greeting
run: |
echo "Hello ${{ github.event.inputs.name }}"
echo "Your favorite city is ${{ github.event.inputs.city }}"
echo "Is your favorite color blue: ${{ github.event.inputs.fav-color-blue }}"