Support "multi-choice" input type for manual workflows

[DpoBoceka]

Describe the enhancement
Current set of input types doesn't cover some use-cases for manual workflows

We use a single gh-action as an entrypoint of deploying packages from our monorepo, and sometimes we need to manually deploy several packages simultaneously. Up until now we just went with a set of Booleans, so we could tick all the packages we needed to run our CI/CD against via UI. However, we speedily reached a limit of 10 input values

Introducing an input type that would store a, say, json array could help:

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      name:
        type: multi-choice
        description: select packages
        options: 
        - go-service1
        - go-service2
        - py-service1

...and in fact would be more logical with less copy-paste overhead for our use-case

[MaikGudi]

I run into the same problem. We want to select multiple schemes to build for our iOS App but we have way more than 10 schemes. It would be definitely a helpful feature. Otherwise, you have to work with the string input type, which can lead to input errors.

[Ido-Ozeri]

+1

[BondLi1]

+1

[paul-gladoon]

+1

[kaira]

+1

[mato1411]

+1

[MatanHeledPort]

+1

[danielsinai]

+1

[mirzaeiyan]

+1

[kc-mzb]

+1

[Dimitris-Mil]

+1

[victorchurikovcommonground]

+1

[priyanthabuddhika]

I would be really great feature to have since many use cases are there.

[joshua-reddish]

+1

[vincda]

+1

[patriziobrunops]

+1

[japseabery]

+1

[chillybug]

+1
I want to use this feature to pass dynamic matrix strategy for manual workflows.

[paulspiegel]

+1

[jwilson232]

+1

[dcruzrinkel]

+1

[vbotay]

+1

[pearlberry]

+1

[djoshi0]

+1

[gheorghesava-mck]

+1

[galz-cyera]

+1

[monsma]

+1

[n-tangufor]

+1

[NP-compete]

+1

[tafaust]

+1

[kasivenkat]

+1

[sandstrom]

👍🏻

[nickgonzfoxeng]

+1

[SerhiiBasetskyi]

+1

[bamarcisz-fadv]

+1

[srinathreddydudi]

+1

[Oscaner]

+1

[ashishbhatt07]

+10

[AndyLysenko]

+1

[yx-altera]

+1

[qnp]

+1

[Himmelschrei]

+1

[martinsamouiller]

+1

[adsz01]

+1

[JoseNoguera-uala]

+1

[kxs581]

+1

[Andre-Medina]

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[AlanHale25]

+1

[marcelin]

Hi,

Can you try this?

name: "Multi-select"
run-name: 🎯${{ github.workflow}} by @${{ github.actor }}

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      dev:
        description: 'Deploy to dev'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      staging:
        description: 'Deploy to staging'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      qat:
        description: 'Deploy to qat'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      prod:
        description: 'Deploy to prod'
        default: false
        type: boolean

jobs:
  get-selected:
    name: Get environment
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs: 
      selectedJson: ${{ steps.get-selected-step.outputs.selected }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Get Selected
        id: get-selected-step
        uses: joao-zanutto/get-selected@v1.1.1
        with:
          format: json

  plan-env:
    needs: get-selected
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        app: ${{ fromJSON(needs.get-selected.outputs.selectedJson) }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
     ....

[dboriichuk]

Hi,

Can you try this?

name: "Multi-select"
run-name: 🎯${{ github.workflow}} by @${{ github.actor }}

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      dev:
        description: 'Deploy to dev'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      staging:
        description: 'Deploy to staging'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      qat:
        description: 'Deploy to qat'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      prod:
        description: 'Deploy to prod'
        default: false
        type: boolean

jobs:
  get-selected:
    name: Get environment
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs: 
      selectedJson: ${{ steps.get-selected-step.outputs.selected }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Get Selected
        id: get-selected-step
        uses: joao-zanutto/get-selected@v1.1.1
        with:
          format: json

  plan-env:
    needs: get-selected
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        app: ${{ fromJSON(needs.get-selected.outputs.selectedJson) }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
     ....

Definitely, this works, the problem is that multi-choice is tightly coupled with limited number of inputs for workflow dispatch (10 max), so in many cases we don't want to have 8 boolean inputs, as it's necessary to have at least 5 another parameters

[origranot]

+100

[jordi-domingo]

+1

[marcelin]

+1

[GCbeheo]

+1

[Gnts]

+1

[alex-slytrunk]

+100

[juha-suokas]

+1

[potiuk]

+1

[benjyabr]

+1