README.md

Issue Task List Action

This action automatically labels an issue that is opened from the "Convert to issue" feature of issue task lists.

Supported events

• opened issue

Inputs

Input Name	Required	Details
parent-label		The parent label to match before applying the label to the opened issue, if not provided will apply the label to all converted issues
task-label	✔️	The comma separated list of labels to apply to the opened issue

Environment Variables

To correctly use this action, we currently require a Personal Access Token with repo permissions. This token can be added to the repository secrets and used in the action with:

env:
  PAT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT_TOKEN }}

Example Usage

name: Labels epic tasks with the feature label

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  label-task:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Label task for epics
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          repository: obvioussean/tasks-action
      - name: Labels the feature
        id: label_feature
        uses: ./ # Uses an action in the root directory
        with:
          parent-label: 'epic'
          task-label: 'feature'
        env:
          PAT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT_TOKEN }}