GitHub Actions
Note
Prerequisite: The yml file should have been created in the main branch in GitHub.
Generate Personal Authentication Token
Perform the following steps to generate a token in GitHub:
Log into GitHub.
Go to User Profile and select Settings.
Click the Developer Settings on the navigation bar.
Click Tokens (classic).
Click Generate new token.
Define the Scopes to grant access to personal tokens, then generate the token.
Construct the URL
The following is an example of constructing the URL to trigger a build in GitHub.
https://api.github.com /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/workflows/{workflow_id}/dispatches
Here, the placeholder's values are as below.
owner=Lizamathew
repo=parameter
workflow_id= 54649623
Hence, the URL to trigger the build would be -
https://api.github.com/repos/Llizamathew/parameter/actions/workflows/54649623/dispatches
CI/CD Rule Configuration in QTM4J
The following are examples of triggering the build without parameters and with query parameters.
CI/CD Rule Without Query Parameters
CI/CD Rule With JSON Parameters
