‼️This is no longer supported ‼️

Please use GitHub Project Automation+ instead. The following snippet adds all new pull requests to a project column using GitHub Project Automation+:

name: Automate project columns

on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  automate-project-columns:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Move new pull requests into Triage
        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'opened'
        uses: alex-page/automate-project-columns@master
        with:
          project: Backlog
          column: Triage
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

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Add new pull requests to project

✨ GitHub action to automagically add new pull requests to projects.

How to use

To use this action we need the project name and the name of the column for the new pull requests will go into. The project and column names will be used to get a column ID for automation.

In your project create a new workflow file .github/main.workflow:

workflow "✨Add new pull requests to projects" {
  resolves = ["alex-page/add-new-pulls-project"]
  on = "pull_request"
}

action "alex-page/add-new-pulls-project" {
  uses = "alex-page/add-new-pulls-project@master"
  args = [ "🎒 Backlog", "To do"]
  secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN"]
}

Note: Replace 🎒 Backlog with your project name and To do with your project column.

Private repositories

In some cases you may want to do add this functionality for a private repository or one you do not have admin rights to. You will likely get an error like:

GraphqlError: Resource not accessible by integration

When this happens you will need to provide a personal access token. To do this you will need to create a new secret called GH_PAT with your secret. You will then need to change the .github/main.workflow secrets to include that token:

secrets = ["GH_PAT"]

Release history

• v0.0.5 - Deprecated
• v0.0.4 - Fix incorrect documentation
• v0.0.3 - Add optional personal access token for private repos
• v0.0.2 - End in a neutral state for unsupported pull request action
• v0.0.1 - First release