Create an issue case the workflow fails

[rffontenelle]

I have a workflow set to try to build a documentation and I would like to have issues opened whenever that workflow fails for some reason. Any suggestion on how I set this up?

[MikeHamilton-RW]

There are several ways I think you could approach this, some uglier than others. Is your document creation all in one job? And how many different steps? This Action looks like it would assist you along with the if conditional.

https://github.com/JasonEtco/create-an-issue

https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idstepsif

steps:

name: Create Documentation

run: DO STUFF TO CREATE DOCS

name: Create Issue

if: failure() # OR Check a bool variable you create and toggle as needed

uses:JasonEtco/create-an-issue@masterenv:

GITHUB_TOKEN:${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}