How would one implement an “else” script, such as using if for success, and something else for failure (what I’m trying to do)

Any solution to the if/else problem?

Take a look at the Workflow Conclusion Action.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/workflow-conclusion-action

The action creates an environment variable that you can use check the status of the other jobs.

Here’s the example from their README:

on: push
name: CI
jobs:

lint:

name: ESLint

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

...
test:

name: Coverage

needs: lint

strategy:

matrix:

node: ['11', '12']

...
publish:

name: Publish Package

needs: test

if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')

...
slack:

name: Slack

needs: publish # set needs only last job except this job

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

if: always() # set always

steps:

# run this action to get workflow conclusion

# You can get conclusion by env (env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION)

- uses: technote-space/workflow-conclusion-action@v1

- uses: 8398a7/action-slack@v2

with:

# status: ${{ env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION }} # neutral, success, cancelled, timed_out, failure

status: failure

env:

GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

if: env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'failure' # notify only if failure

Notice that the last step only runs if the other jobs failed.

This is how I implemented if/else with slack notifications for my failed builds:

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    name: Build and Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    ...
   - name: notify of failure
      if: ${{ failure() }}
      uses: tokorom/action-slack-incoming-webhook@main
      env:
        INCOMING_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
      with:
        text: XXX Build failed - Deploy - Server - TEST - Azure Web Apps CI/CD. XXX
    - name: notify of success
      if: ${{ success() }}
     uses: tokorom/action-slack-incoming-webhook@main
      env:
        INCOMING_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
      with:
        text: ":heavy_check_mark: Build success - Deploy -  Server - TEST - Azure Web pps CI/CD. :heavy_check_mark:"