if: always () with another if condition

[adampeklay]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This is more of a question as It could be lack of YAML knowledge on my end. However, I'm having a hard time getting if: always () to work, because I have an if: statement already being used to identify which environment we're using.

This works just fine, without if: always ()

Example (modified for randomness)

name: SomeTest

on:
 repository_dispatch:
    types: [SomeTest]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      ENV: ${{ github.event.client_payload.env }}
      A_CICD_JOB: ${{ github.event.client_payload.repo_name }}
      BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.event.client_payload.branch_name }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Set up JDK XX
      <BUILD SOME STUFF>
     ...
     ...
     ...

      - name: Slack Notify Status UAT
        uses: act10ns/slack@v1
        if: ${{ env.ENV  }} == 'uat'
        with:
          webhook-url: ${{ secrets.UAT_SOMETEST_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
          status: ${{ job.status }}
          channel: '#uat-somechannel'
          message: GitHub some test result "${{ job.status }}" on ${{ env.A_CICD_JOB }} - ${{ env.BRANCH_NAME }}
   
      - name: Slack Notify Status Staging
        uses: act10ns/slack@v1
        if: ${{ env.ENV }} == 'staging'
        with:
           webhook-url: ${{ secrets.STAGING_SOMETEST_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
           status: ${{ job.status }}
           channel: '#staging-somechannel'
           message: GitHub some test result "${{ job.status }}" on ${{ env.A_CICD_JOB }} - ${{ env.BRANCH_NAME }}

I've tried various combinations, like so (same for 'staging'):

• which gets no failure notifications, and posts in both slack channels above, during success

        uses: act10ns/slack@v1
        if: |
          always() &&
          ${{ env.ENV  }} == 'uat'
        with:

I've also tried a simple always() && ${{ env.ENV }} == 'uat' however, same results as directly above.

Describe the solution you'd like
I think I may just be missing something, if not:

• can we have another way to report statuses besides success that don't require if:?

Describe alternatives you've considered
I can just create two workflow files, however I wanted to check here first as a last option before duplicating that much code.

Additional context
I am using web hooks, not slack apps.

Thank you very much!

[adampeklay]

I did wind up just using two separate workflow files, so I'm all set. Still curious though! TBH since there is only IF (no Else/Then) in GitHub actions I'm not too concerned about small DRY issues as I already had that going on in the example above.