actions-marketplace-validations/Trigger CI
Launches a CI build in another repository
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- Stalelast commit Mar 22, 2021
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- Apache 2.0
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uses: actions-marketplace-validations/informaticsmatters_trigger-ci-action@86a187932ffa16df10523eeb341cd216e349bc61 # no releases — HEAD as of 2026-07-10tags can be moved; commit SHAs can't. why a SHA?
Inputs
| name | description | required | default |
|---|---|---|---|
| ci-type | The repository type, i.e. 'github-workflow-dispatch' for workflow-dispatch triggers. Supported values are 'github-workflow-dispatch'. | yes | github-workflow-dispatch |
| ci-owner | The repository owner, i.e. 'informaticsmatters' | yes | — |
| ci-repository | The repository, i.e. 'squonk' | yes | — |
| ci-ref | The fully qualified remote reference, a branch or a tag. Default is 'refs/heads/main' but can be a branch, i.e. 'refs/heads/dev-branch' or a tag, i.e. 'refs/tags/2021.3', or any valid reference. | no | refs/heads/main |
| ci-user | A user that can access the repository | yes | — |
| ci-user-token | The repository user's token | yes | — |
| ci-name | The name of the remote CI process. In the case of a GitHub workflow this is the name of the workflow (the assigned name in the workflow file, not its filename) | no | no-such-name |
| ci-inputs | A space-separated set of inputs and values for the remote CI process. i.e. 'x=100 y=200' | no | no-such-input=1 |
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