Team mention from bot not working #25608

awendt · 2020-11-19T14:43:37Z

awendt
Nov 19, 2020

Hi! 👋

I’m trying to mention my team from actions/github-script – individual mentions work alright, but team mentions are shown as plain text when sent from github-actions[bot].

If I query the body attribute of an issue comment typed manually (this is successfully turned into a team mention) and compare it with the body attribute of an issue comment sent by github-actions[bot], I can’t spot a formatting difference.

What’s going on here?

Thanks,
André

Answered by wechuli

Sep 21, 2021

The issue here is that the default GITHUB_TOKEN does not have permission to read teams in an organization:

  <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/authentication-in-a-workflow#permissions-for-the-github_token" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">GitHub Docs</a>

Authentication in a workflow - GitHub Docs

Its access is limited to the repository where the workflow is running. You’ll need to create a PAT for that functionality to work. If you are using actions/github-script, you can pass the PAT as an input (it default to the GITHUB_TOKEN if no other token is passed):

  <a href="https://github.com/actions/github-script/blob/5d31eecbde4f80ba181f36dbc095950302fca3…

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nbaztec · 2021-01-11T15:15:26Z

nbaztec
Jan 11, 2021

I’m having the same problem here and not sure how to go about it. 😦

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iCynara · 2021-07-27T19:27:18Z

iCynara
Jul 27, 2021

I also have the same issue. it is believed a github bug, and they have not fixed it yet.
do you guys find any workaround can share?

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iCynara · 2021-07-28T14:54:49Z

iCynara
Jul 28, 2021

Hi after a few more testing, i managed to make it work.
The trick is you need to give the member permission for you app.
It is under app settings → permissions & events → Organization → member → read only

Then i can mention @ team no problem

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ciaranevans · 2021-08-27T08:35:46Z

ciaranevans
Aug 27, 2021

Hey @iCynara was this using an actual GitHub App or just an Action?

I’m hitting the same issue but with the following workflow:

name: Notify for new PR on: pull_request: types: [opened]

jobs: notify-maintainers: runs-on: ubuntu-20.04 steps: - name: Notify @chaostoolkit/maintainers uses: JoseThen/comment-pr@v1.1.0 with: comment: | Hey @chaostoolkit/maintainers Someone just raised this PR! :construction_worker: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

I get the message but it’s not linked:

image952×330 26 KB

However if I ‘edit’ the post and go to preview, it’s then linked 😦

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moui72 · 2021-09-15T16:43:57Z

moui72
Sep 15, 2021

I’m also having this issue via actions 😦

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wechuli · 2021-09-21T13:00:41Z

wechuli
Sep 21, 2021

The issue here is that the default GITHUB_TOKEN does not have permission to read teams in an organization:

  <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/authentication-in-a-workflow#permissions-for-the-github_token" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">GitHub Docs</a>

Authentication in a workflow - GitHub Docs

Its access is limited to the repository where the workflow is running. You’ll need to create a PAT for that functionality to work. If you are using actions/github-script, you can pass the PAT as an input (it default to the GITHUB_TOKEN if no other token is passed):

  <a href="https://github.com/actions/github-script/blob/5d31eecbde4f80ba181f36dbc095950302fca32c/action.yml#L11" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">github.com</a>

actions/github-script/blob/5d31eecbde4f80ba181f36dbc095950302fca32c/action.yml#L11

    
      
          name: GitHub Script
          author: GitHub
          description: Run simple scripts using the GitHub client
          branding:
            color: blue
            icon: code
          inputs:
            script:
              description: The script to run
              required: true
            github-token:
              description: The GitHub token used to create an authenticated client
              default: ${{ github.token }}
              required: false
            debug:
              description: Whether to tell the GitHub client to log details of its requests
              default: false
            user-agent:
              description: An optional user-agent string
              default: actions/github-script
            previews:

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