"deployment_status" isn't triggered

[cecilemuller]

Here’s a test case:

https://github.com/wildpeaks/issue-deployment-status-action/tree/master/.github/workflows

Two actions:

 - Deploy triggered by deployment (when a Deployment is created using Github API v3): this runs fine

 - Notify triggered by deployment_status: this doesn’t run

Action Deploy sends a success status:

 - the Actions logs show the status was received successfully

 - the Environments tab shows the status change and says it’s deployed

Yet the Notify action doesn’t show up in the Actions tab at all.

However, I managed to isolate the cause to the token used to set the Status:

 - when using github.token , the status gets changed, but Notify isn’t triggered

 - when using a token from a user with write permission on the repo (the same one used to create the deployment), the status gets changed and Notify is triggered

Is this by design ?

[weide-zhou]

Hi @cecilemuller ,

Yes, this is by design.

With github token, an action in a workflow run can’t trigger a new workflow run. Please refer to official doc for more details.

Creating personal access token as secrets instead is the workaround.

Thanks.