‼️This is no longer supported ‼️

Please use GitHub Project Automation+ instead. The following snippet adds or moves all assigned 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 assigned pull requests into To do
        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'assigned'
        uses: alex-page/automate-project-columns@master
        with:
          project: Backlog
          column: To do
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Move assinged pull request to column

✨ GitHub action to automagically move assigned pull request to a column.

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 "✨ Move assigned pull request to column" {
  resolves = ["Move assigned pull request to column"]
  on = "pull_request"
}

action "Move assigned pull request to column" {
  uses = "alex-page/move-assigned-pulls-column@master"
  args = [ "🎒 Backlog", "In progress"]
  secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN"]
}

Note: Replace 🎒 Backlog with your project name and In progress 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

v0.0.6 - Deprecate
v0.0.5 - Fix incorrect documentation
v0.0.4 - Add optional personal access token for private repos
v0.0.3 - Add missing labels for action release
v0.0.2 - End in a neutral state for unsupported pull request action
v0.0.1 - First release