Why Can't I Add a Filter Action to My New Workflow in GitHub?

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Did something change in regards to actions supported w/ workflows using GitHub? I have an existing workflow in a project using GH, and it has a filter action. i was making a new version of it and created a new workflow, but now i cant add filter.

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I wonder if we’re misclassifying the Filter actions as a control flow block (control flow blocks don’t currently work with Git Sync), just shared w/ that team

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Thanks for letting us know – this should be fixed!

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woot - im useful! :laughing:

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i committed my workflow and hit edit again, and still cant. do i need to make a new workflow?

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nm - i was using the wrong one. i had searched for ‘if’, i went to filter, and it had the action i was looking for

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yep, github actions did tweak some of the way reusable workflows and filters work. the old filter action you are referring to probably relied on behavior that is now restricted to either workflow_call contexts or deprecated syntax. if you are making a new workflow, you will need to make sure your on: triggers and jobs structure actually support the filter logic. a lot of people get tripped up because if: conditions at the job level behave differently than they did a year ago. basically, double-check that your filter isn’t trying to run in a context github no longer allows, otherwise it just won’t show up.