default workflow name is not filename, but file path

[maxheld83]

Wrote support about this:

https://help.github.com/en/articles/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#name says that when no name: is given, GitHub Actions will use the "workflow's filename". That's not quite the behavior I'm seeing:

That is, in fact, the workflow file path from the root. The same applies to the url to the action status badge: this also requires the entire file path from the repo root: https://github.com/r-lib/ghactions/workflows/.github/workflows/main.yml/badge.svg This is a bit weird:The docs are unclear/wrongit's unclear why this would be so; just using the filename would be more succinct, or the path from ./github/workflows, because by definitions, workflows have to exist in that place.The url for the action status badge, in particular, gets ugly.So, perhaps you could change the docs here or the behavior?

[andrewdbond]

https://help.github.com/en/articles/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#name says that when no name: is given, GitHub Actions will use the "workflow's filename".

Since at least January of this year (I didn't check further), GitHub changed the text. It now says:

If you omit name, GitHub sets it to the workflow file path relative to the root of the repository.

https://github.com/github/docs/blob/2a58d29f33e31765f517ebd140b8081222d6615a/content/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions.md#name

[john-from-qa]

Even after adding a name to the workflow, github continues to show the filepath as the name under the actions tab.

[YoavGro]

Happens to me also

[dsever]

The same here

[endruuu]

Me too. It was working fine for months, then somehow some of my workflows' name changed to file path. I have put the name since the beginning.

[endruuu]

Those workflows have workflow_dispatch with inputs. After they changed to file path, I cannot run them manually anymore through the web UI.

[endruuu]

My bad. It turns out that the workflows have been modified and there's syntax error there. After fixing the error, the name shows up correctly.

[mstrug-rdx]

I had the same issue, it was caused by adding a colon character in input description field (using quotes for whole description text). After removing colon it works fine.

[fatemeh-i]

I had the same issue, and the reason was the existence of a commented line(#) in my file.

[tking16]

Issue is open since 2019? Hellooo github team, you there??

[khaoulabelabyad]

Same issue on my project too