How to set strings for failed CI checks of Scheduled Reminders

[kenta-polyglot]

Hi,

In Scheduled Reminder for user settings, I want to be notified when CI of Pull Request fails

However, there are very few setting examples of “Your PR has failed CI checks”, so I can’t understand how to do it if I want to set the workflow of GitHub Actions here.

My GitHub Actions workflow is shown below on the Pull Request screen.

I would be grateful if anyone could tell me the correct setting.

[Jaboo9]

Hi

The issue with receiving slack notifications for failed CI checks has been fixed. You can check again to confirm.

[sasacocic]

I don't think this should be the answer. It doesn't show any examples of how to actually set the string.

[Gruebes]

Hope this helps: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/23986#discussioncomment-6826037

[mateusloubach]

Most of these accepted answers have been this. some text or a link and voilá.. accepted answers, while some dude spent the past half hour helping step-by-step and gets no upvote at all..

[kenta-polyglot]

@Jaboo9

Thanks a lot! I will check again!

[eggilbert]

Any luck with this? I’m running into this problem too, and just tried again and couldn’t get any permutation of CI check name to work.

It’s unclear what the CI check name is expected to be. What I see in the UI on the pull request is prefixed with the GitHub App name, but referencing one in the protected branch settings on the repo it’s only the latter suffix that shows up in the list.

I’m not using GitHub Actions, but I tried the equivalent of:

• check
• Check / check
• Check / check (pull_request)
• "check"
• "Check / check"
• "Check / check (pull_request)"
• check, Check / check, Check / check (pull_request)

And in all of these cases when the build fails and the status is updated, there’s no notification in Slack. Other real-time alerts are working, it’s just the CI check one that isn’t triggering.

[kenta-polyglot]

@eggilbert

Hi, My case is fixed and Slack is now notified when CI fails.

My CI name on pull request is “Check / check (pull_request)” and I have entered “check” for “Your PR has failed CI checks” in the scheduled reminder.

I hope it will be helpful.

[gnumoksha]

My checks are named like in:

• ci/circleci: build-project
• ci/circleci: libs-unit-tests

I had to put all of them, separated by comma, like in ci/circleci: build-project,ci/circleci: libs-unit-tests

I must say this feature worked great before it was integrated into GitHub.

[maximevaillancourt]

I can't use the "Your PR has failed CI checks" real-time alerting because the status checks I'm trying to use it with have commas in their names (e.g. Test / Tests (8, 0)). Those status check names are generated by GitHub's own "matrix" feature in GitHub Actions, and it doesn't seem possible to rename those.

In other words, one of GitHub's features (GitHub Actions runner matrix) prevents using another GitHub feature (the "Your PR has failed CI checks" real-time alerting) because of the commas in the auto-generated status check names.

Is there a way to circumvent this issue somehow? I tried escaping the commas, wrapping the name in double quotes, and combining the two, to no avail:

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[Gruebes]

I was able to get this to work using the job name from my yaml file:

Using the value build ( NOT Build and Test from the property name:) - Example below

I received a notification when the pr build failed 🎉

[Joel-RS21]

How do I do "all"?!

[irl-segfault]

honestly hilarious that there isn't an easy way to do this

[yasht01]

much needed feature.

[syed-dawood]

How do I do "all"?!

Did anybody find a solution?