Tag a user or a team in an issue comment

Sometimes you want to tag a team or multiple persons when an issue (or something else) is created. This action will help you do that by tagging them in an issue by making a comment that tags them.

Requirements:

A GitHub App installed on the repository/organization that the GitHub Actions Workflow will execute from. The GitHub Apps minimally should have the following permissions:

• Read & write access to Issues
• Read-only access to Members
• Read-only access to Administration (Only applicable for GitHub Enterprise Server) A method to retrieve an access token from the App, a good example for an action would be this action.

  - uses: devops-actions/[email protected]
    with:
      team: < insert team or user name >
      issue: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
      owner: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
      repo: ${{ github.repository }}
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]
    
jobs:
  tag-a-user:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps: 
      - uses: devops-actions/[email protected]
        name: Tag a user or team in an issue comment
        with: 
          issue: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
          team: < insert team or user name >
          owner: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
          repo: ${{ github.repository }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

If you need to tag an internal team @<org name>/team or user, then you need to send in an Access Token that has the rights to do so: the normal GITHUB_TOKEN doesn't have access outside the current repository, which also means it cannot see the users in the organization.

If you are using a GitHub App for creating the access token, you need to give the App the following scope:

• Organization permissions - Members: Read only