Hi @utgwkk ,

The upload-artifact step is not executed due to previous step ‘do_test’ failed. You need to add failure() expression check as well. Code sample as below:

    steps:
          - id: do_test
            run: |
              echo hello > hello.txt
              false
          - id: foo
            run: |
              if [-e 'hello.txt']; then
                echo "::set-output name=exists::true"
              fi
            if: failure()
      - name: check steps.foo.outputs.exists
        run: echo ${{ steps.foo.outputs.exists }}
        if: always()

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: hello
          path: hello.txt
        if: failure() && (steps.foo.outputs.exists == 'true')

Or you can use ‘continue-on-error’ to make step1 always succeeds. Code as below:

    steps:
          - id: do_test
            continue-on-error: true
            run: |
              echo hello > hello.txt
              false
          - id: foo
            run: |
              if [-e 'hello.txt']; then
                echo "::set-output name=exists::true"
              fi
          - name: check steps.foo.outputs.exists
            run: echo ${{ steps.foo.outputs.exists }}
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: hello
          path: hello.txt
        if: steps.foo.outputs.exists == 'true'

Thanks.