Manually Trigger GitHub Actions Workflows Using workflow_dispatch - GitHub Actions Tutorial

In this GitHub Actions Tutorial, we'll walk through how to add a workflow_dispatch to your GitHub Actions workflow so it can be run manually, any time you want, from within the GitHub Actions tab in the GitHub web UI.
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[@goobar]

Are you using workflow_dispatch triggers for any of your GitHub Actions workflows? If so, what types of workflows do you think benefit most from a manual trigger option?

[@AbhijitG2]

Wish I had found this before ❤. Still working and looking forward to learn great number of things

[@anusham9261]

Very Useful..thank you!!

[@goobar]

You are welcome!

[@barbaralhebel9236]

Awesome!!😁

[@prabeshregmi1966]

Thank you brother! You saved my ass

[@goobar]

Happy to help! 😄

[@moataz4296]

Great ❤

[@goobar]

Glad you liked it!

[@lanhnguyenthi1205]

In my repo, default branch is develop. If I push workflow file into develop branch Run workflow is shown in github action, but if I push workflow file in another branch I can not see Run workflow is shown in github action.
I want to run workflow manually on non-default branch, are there any ways to do this?

[@goobar]

Yes, you should be able to buy the workflow file needs to be in the default branch. Once it's in the default branch, you should be able to run it against any other branch. This allows you to do things like putting a very simple stubbed out workflow in the default branch, check it in, then add more complex behavior in your feature branch and test that complex behavior before checking it in.

[@lanhnguyenthi1205]

I understood. Thank you so much.

[@nirmalkumar5405]

is there any way for selecting multiple options from a drop down

[@afroman789]

Did you ever figure out how to format it if you need to select from a dropdown before running the workflow?

[@nirmalkumar5405]

@@afroman789 use workflow dispatch
It’s allows you to take inputs to run a pipeline

[@boot-strapper]

why do github actions suck so bad comapred to gitlab????

[@goobar]

What have you found to be so bad about them? I've never found them to be that difficult. But I also haven't used GitLab to compare to