Important

This project has been archived and is no longer actively maintained. As announced in v2.4.0, this was planned as the final release by the current maintainer. If you are interested in taking over maintenance, please contact @toshimaru.

backlog-pr-link-action

GitHub Actions: Link GitHub Pull Request to Backlog issue.

Prerequisite

• Backlog Premium plan (ref. Backlog Pricing)
• Create custom field named "Pull Request" in Backlog issue

Usage

# .github/workflows/backlog-pr-link.yml
name: 'Link PR to Backlog'

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, edited]

jobs:
  backlog-pr-link:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: toshimaru/backlog-pr-link-action@v2.3.0
        with:
          backlog-api-key: "${{ secrets.BACKLOG_API_KEY }}"
          backlog-host: "your-org.backlog.com"

Tip

Avoiding unnecessary runs

If the pull request doesn't contain a Backlog URL, there's no need to run this action.

To avoid this situation, you can skip the job by using an if expression as follows:

# Run the job only when the pull request contains a Backlog URL
jobs:
  backlog-pr-link:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: contains(github.event.pull_request.body, 'https://yourhost.backlog.com/')
    steps:
      - ...

How it works

• Check the pull request has a Backlog issue URL when it's opened or edited
• If it has the URL, link GitHub PR to Backlog issue

Setup

1. Create a custom field named Pull Request

• Custom Field: Pull Request
• Custom Field Type: Sentence

Image: Create a custom field

Reference

• [English] Setting Custom fields - Backlog Enterprise
• [Japanese] カスタム属性の設定方法 – Backlog ヘルプセンター

2. Generate Backlog API key

• Go to Backlog API Settings page
• Generate API key for the action

Image: Generate Backlog API key

Reference

• [English] API Settings – Backlog Help Center
• [Japanese] APIの設定 – Backlog ヘルプセンター

3. Set API key to GitHub Secret

• Go to GitHub Actions secrets page
• Add GitHub Repository secret
  • secret name: BACKLOG_API_KEY
  • secret value: {your-backlog-api-key}

Image: Set API key to GitHub Secret

Reference

• Encrypted secrets - GitHub Docs