I'm dealing with a single workflow that takes workflow_dispatch inputs from the user and runs. After the workflow logs have passed their retention limits (30 days) I need to rerun the same workflow the second time however, the second run should get the same inputs that were used for the first run more than 30 days earlier.
I wish to dynamically set the key-value for workflow_dispatch inputs by reading the key-value from a file generated by a previous run.
name: Redirect Inputs to File
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
input1:
description: 'Input 1'
required: true
default: 'Default Value 1'
input2:
description: 'Input 2'
required: true
default: 'Default Value 2'
previousrunid:
description: 'Enter previous runid'
required: true
default: '4356678'
jobs:
redirect-inputs:
runs-on: windows-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Run PowerShell script to dump inputs to file STACK
shell: pwsh
run: |
$Inputs = @"
${{ toJson(github.event.inputs) }}
"@ | ConvertFrom-Json
$InputData = $Inputs | ConvertTo-Json
Write-Host $InputData
$InputData | Out-File -FilePath "C:\Temp\inputs.json"
Get-Content -Path "C:\Temp\inputs.json"
If the user provides the previous previousrunid my workflow reads the inputs from C:\Temp\inputs.json and must assign the key-values to the current run inputs i.e ${{ github.event.inputs.<key> }} if that is possible?
Reference: How do we write GITHUB ACTIONS workflow_dispatch user inputs to a file and read it back