Create basic_workflow.yml

Author: TomSmithCoding

.github/workflows/basic_workflow.yml

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+# 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.name }}"