basic-workflow.yml

# Name display of workflow
name: Basic Workflow

# When the action will run, workflow_dispatch gives a manual button to trigger it. For the button to show you have to have a version of this workflow file on default branch
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    # Inputs the workflow accepts
    inputs:
      name:
        # Friendly description to be shown in the UI instead of 'name'
        description: "Person to greet"
        # Default value
        default: "World"
        # Input has to be provided for the workflow to run
        required: true
        # Input type
        type: string
      city:
        description: "Favourite city"
        required: true
        default: "Leeds"
        type: choice
        options:
          - New York
          - Tokyo
          - Leeds
      fav-colour-blue:
          description: "Is your favourite colour blue"
          required: true
          type: boolean

# Workflows made up of one or more jobs.
jobs:
    # This workflow has one job called greet
    greet:
      # Displays name for job
      name: "Greetings, Program!"

      # Type of runner the job will run on
      runs-on:
        - ubuntu-latest

      # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed in job
      steps:
        # Runs commands using the runners shell and gets context from the github object
        - name: Send greeting
          run: |
            echo "Hello ${{ github.event.inputs.name }}"
            echo "Your favourite city is ${{ github.event.inputs.city }}"
            echo "Is your favourite colour blue: ${{ github.event.inputs.fav-colour-blue }}"