It worked! 

I’m looking over the other documentation about events for Actions (https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#onevent_nametypes) and the value they give is created not create. It does not work with created.  At least the autosuggest in the Actions Editor on Github shows create.

Thank you for your reply.

Hi @themoch , 

I want to provide some explanation. 

The doc you mentioned before links to  on.<event_name>.types  , the “created” is the type name of release event. All the Activity types of events are in past tense. 

I have recommended you to use create event, the “create” is the name of an event. 

I understand completely.

It would be nice if this page contained a list of events at the top or in the navigation for quick reference.  

https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows#create-event-create

Oh, there is a good idea. We will consider it. 

Hi @yanjingzhu, is this still accurate advice?

I have:
on: [create, workflow_dispatch]
in an initialise.yml action in my Template.

But when a user creates a repo from the template, it doesn’t run ☹️
Running the workflow manually works fine.

Any thoughts?

Doesn’t work for me either.

As a work-around, one could have on: push instead in the template and then edit it out and commit the new modified initialise.yml, if one wants to keep it. Personally I just delete the workflow as the last step before committing the changes.

Maybe with an if: ${{ github.repository != 'owner/template-repo' }}.