Link to GH Action workflow run?

[janpio]

Is there a way to output a link to the workflow run the dispatch started?
Right now one has to go over the other workflow or repo, and make the connection manually. Would be much nicer if we could just click a link that is output in the job that uses this action.

[benc-uk]

In summary - no there isn't.

As the GitHub API doesn't return the run-id of the dispatched run

[Jolg42]

I was curious: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/workflows?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-a-workflow-dispatch-event
The return is just Status: 204 from what I can see.

There is a request https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/9752 to make it return the run-id.
I can see some people got creative with some workarounds too 😄

The person who created the discussion mentions their PR convictional/trigger-workflow-and-wait#37

So technically we could try a similar approach here, but I can understand if this is not a priority.

[benc-uk]

The workarounds all seem pretty horrible IMO
Either putting UUID in the run name, which is hella ugly as it's visible to users, or some checking of timestamps which is never going to be reliable