Github - Auto assign Issue to Project

Question

I would like to Auto Assign an issue to a project in Github. Basically automate the below screenshot for every issue automatically opened. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use create-or-update-project-card to achieve this.

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]
jobs:
  createCard:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Create or Update Project Card
        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-project-card@v1
        with:
          project-name: My project
          column-name: My column

Answer 2

For the new beta projects, there's now an official action to add issues and pull requests: actions/add-to-project. It's "in beta, however the API is stable".

Using the action looks roughly like

      - uses: actions/add-to-project@main
        with:
          project-url: https://github.com/orgs/<orgName>/projects/<projectNumber>
          github-token: ${{ secrets.ADD_TO_PROJECT_PAT }}
          labeled: bug, needs-triage
          label-operator: OR

where the token requires repo and project scopes (as of v0.1.0).

Answer 3

There is an app Project Bot to automate this because right now it seems like it is not possible to do so with just the GitHub project configuration.

Here is the Project Bot description from it's repo

This bot will automatically add new Issues or Pull Requests to a Project board based on specially formatted Cards in each Column of a Project. It also allows you to customize the rules for moving Issues between Columns.

Here is the project-bot repo: https://github.com/philschatz/project-bot

I hope it helps!

Answer 4

I managed to make it work using this workflow.