How to set a whole GitHub Actions workflow as a required status check on a protected branch (instead of individual jobs)?

Question

The search bar for setting required status checks suggest only the names of individual jobs in workflows. They don't suggest the whole workflow.

This is inconvenient, because if I add a new job to the workflow, I would need to add this new job to the list of required status checks for the branch.

Is there a way of setting a whole GitHub Actions workflow as a required status check on a protected branch?

Answer 1

you could use workflow_run to trigger your workflow like this:

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["workflow1", "workflow2"]
    types:
      - completed
    branches:
      - main

More details in the docs