@smithw-adsk,

According to the if conditional you set in your workflow,

if: contains(toJson(github.event.pull_request.assignee), 'ecp-maya-devops-adsk')

it will check the whole context of the “github.event.pull_request.assignee” object to see if it contains the string or sub-string “ecp-maya-devops-adsk”.
The “github.event.pull_request.assignee” object generally contains the information of the earliest added assignee existing in current Assignees.

What is your real purpose?

1. You want the job (check) in the workflow only runs when the latest added assignee is the user named “ecp-maya-devops-adsk”.
   If so, the expression you are using is not accurate and strict. You can use the expression “github.event.assignee.login” to get the login name of the latest added assignee, and the if conditional should look like this.

   if: ${{ github.event.assignee.login == 'ecp-maya-devops-adsk' }}
   

2. You want the job (check) in the workflow only runs when the Assignees contains the user named “ecp-maya-devops-adsk”.
   If so, you can use the expression “github.event.pull_request.assignees” to get the assignees object which is an array contains the information of all the existing assignees. And use the expression “github.event.pull_request.assignees.*.login” to extract the login names of the assignees into an array from the assignees object.
   Then, the if conditional should look like this.

   if: ${{ contains(github.event.pull_request.assignees.*.login, 'ecp-maya-devops-adsk') }}
   

@brightran

Your suggestions are more accurate and our requirement is the first one you listed. It’s been very reliable in testing and I’ll put it into our action.

Thanks for your help.
William

Hello brightran,

Your suggestion seems to have solved the issue for us.

if: ${{ github.event.assignee.login == 'ecp-maya-devops-adsk' }}

Thanks for your help!
William