Better inform user about workflow permission
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| if ((apiResponse.message as string)?.includes('Personal Access Token') | ||
| 8000 | && (apiResponse.message as string)?.includes('without `workflow` scope')) { |
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Merge these two checks or just include one. What's the full error?
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Hello @fregante even though the token doesn't have workflow scope only have repo and project scope it didn't trigger the workflow scope error. what I have tried is I made a PR with workflow file, It ran successfully without error and also I have tried discard changes from file changed view dropdown to see if that triggers workflow error, it didn't. It successfully ran and commits
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workflow scope detection display and Improved error messageworkflow permission
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Closes: #8341
Related Sub Issue: #7641
In this PR I have added workflow scope to the token validation display and provided a clear error message with direct link to token settings.
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