How to create a workflow that cancels all other workflows without passing all IDs or names about cancel-workflow-action HOT 10 CLOSED

We have the Advanced Usage so you would need to pass the names of all the other workflows.

This accepts names or IDs as seen here:

That being said, we could add a new feature for workflow_id: all or something like that to indicate you want this workflow to cancel all other workflows.

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For the lazy, guess you're talking about this https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/143206795949d85545d1a76f634d23b5b780898f/.github/workflows/cancel-previous-runs.yml#L23-L36

      - name: Get workflow IDs.
        id: workflow_ids
        env:
          # This is in <owner>/<repo> format e.g. zulip/zulip
          REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
        run: |
          workflow_api_url=https://api.github.com/repos/$REPOSITORY/actions/workflows
          curl $workflow_api_url -o workflows.json
          script="const {workflows} = require('./workflows'); \
                  const ids = workflows.map(workflow => workflow.id); \
                  console.log(ids.join(','));"
          ids=$(node -e "$script")
          echo "::set-output name=ids::$ids"

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Feel free to create a PR and I'll take a look 👍

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I am in favor of the all feature as having 2 workflows for cancelling doesn't feel good.

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@styfle Created a Pull request to close this issue, please review

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You can use the workflow name instead of the ID as mentioned in the README:

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I'm not sure I ever thought about this or if it's even possible, but a mode where it automatically cancels all workflows except it's would be great. That basically how I use it and once you've a lot of repos with lots of workflows, it gets easy to miss the one or other in a while…

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Guys please head over to zulip/zulip to take a look. We are doing some good work :). We already did it, that's why thought of creating this issue over here as a heads up.

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Are you sure it works? When I look in https://github.com/zulip/zulip/runs/1772509492?check_suite_focus=true , I see Resource not accessible by integration error for pull_request event.

Digging through the logs, it is like this as far back as 2020-12-10 (https://github.com/zulip/zulip/runs/1531990604?check_suite_focus=true).

I am not sure if GitHub changed the scope of github.token or it has always been like this for pull_request.

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That being said, we could add a new feature for workflow_id: all or something like that to indicate you want this workflow to cancel all other workflows.

Should we create a separate feature request issue for this? Or will it be tracked here? I think it would be great to have this.

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