Manually triggered Github Action is always being skipped

Question

I have a working Github Action file that build on commits.

I want to be able to manually trigger a build so I only added "workflow_dispatch" and got the nice option button visible in the GUI where I can select which branch to manually build.

But when I select a branch ("dev") and start the build it always get skipped?!

The yml-file is both in my "main" branch and in the desired branch "dev"

My yml-file looks like below and "workflow_dispatch" is the only thing I have changed:

name: Build for dev
on:
 workflow_dispatch:
 push:
 branches:
 - dev
 pull_request:
 types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, closed]
 branches:
 - dev
jobs:
 build_and_deploy_job:
 if: github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action != 'closed')
 runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 name: Build and Deploy Job
 steps:
 - uses: actions/checkout@v2
 with:
 submodules: true
 - name: Build And Deploy
 id: builddeploy
 uses: Azure/[email protected]
 with:
 app_build_command: "npm run build-dev"
 azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{ secrets.AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN_XXXXX }}
 repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Used for Github integrations (i.e. PR comments)
 action: "upload"
 ###### Repository/Build Configurations - These values can be configured to match you app requirements. ######
 # For more information regarding Static Web App workflow configurations, please visit: https://aka.ms/swaworkflowconfig
 app_location: "/" # App source code path
 api_location: "api" # Api source code path - optional
 output_location: "dist" # Built app content directory - optional
 ###### End of Repository/Build Configurations ######
 env:
 NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
 close_pull_request_job:
 if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'closed'
 runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 name: Close Pull Request Job
 steps:
 - name: Close Pull Request
 id: closepullrequest
 uses: Azure/[email protected]
 with:
 azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{ secrets.AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN_XXXXX }}
 action: "close"

Does anyone know why build is being skipped, or where I can see the reason for it?

UPDATE: Screenshot from skipped build: enter image description here

UPDATED! I found solution myself! I had an if statement in "build_and_deploy_job" so I needed to change it to:

if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action != 'closed')

• Dummmy: Could you please attach the link to the log of the action execution? It would help determining the problem.
• Persyl: Repo is private, still there is no log produced - it just say build is skipped.
• Krzysztof Madej: Can you add your full workflow?
• Persyl: I haave just updated this issue now with full yml-file content

Answer 1

I had the same symptom -- my manually run workflow was being marked as "Skipped."

In my case, I had the following condition on each job. This condition only ran the job if the previous workflow in the chain was successful:

if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}

The above was not satisfied when the workflow was started manually. The following worked for me:

if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}

The above says, "run this job if it was manually started or the parent workflow succeeded."

• Borislav Gizdov: I had a similar issue in my case with a check for the repo: if: github.repository == 'bgizdov/wrong-repo'