Get contents/body of issue in action

[thechelsuk]

[BrightRan]

@MatBenfield,

When the workflow is triggered by the events related to issue (issues or issue_comment), from the github context of the workflow run you can get the details of the issue via the object “github.event.issue”.
For example:

• github.event.issue.title - - the title of the issue.
• github.event.issue.body - - the body (or description) of the issue, it is the first comment when creating the issue.

A simple workflow example:

on: issues
jobs:

job1:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- name: View issue information

run: |

echo "Issue title: ${{ github.event.issue.title }}"

echo "Issue body: ${{ github.event.issue.body }}"
You also can print the whole github context to the logs to view more details.
  - name: View the github context
    run: echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
    env:
      GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}

[abineyard]

Is there a way to go deeper than just body? Like if you had a dropdown list of stores (id: store) and you want to just display the store names, could you do something like:
"${{ github.event.issue.body.store }}"

[thechelsuk]

I had tried this at the time, and there wasn’t anyway to access this level of data.