Long workflow names are truncated in UI

[scott-doyland-burrows]

Hi,

In the GHA workflow page, I see this:

As you can see, the workflow names are truncated and even though these are two different named workflows I cannot easily see which is which without hovering over them.

There is a lot of wasted "white" space to the left and right of the page that could be used to accommodate longer names.

Please can the layout of the GHA workflow page be altered to allow longer names to fully show up.

[ethomson]

Thanks @scott-doyland-burrows - we don't have any work in flight to change this but I'll put this on the backlog and discuss with the design team. I appreciate the feedback.

[Arkessler]

Chiming in as this impacts my day-to-day flow a fair bit.

@ethomson thanks for engaging! Has there been any movement on this in the interim?

For context, I've been trying to advocate for Github Action use internally in my org. The biggest pushback has been that it is hard to find workflows and figure out what they're doing. I agree that that's one area where Actions don't perform very well, and items like this feel like low-hanging fruit that could go a long ways to improving the user experience. It seems kind of silly that I, as a user, have no ability to read the list of my action names at a glance, when roughly 1/5 of my screen real estate is sitting unused on either side of my monitor.

[atomlab]

The same problem. I have about 50 workflows with names contains 30-35 letters.

[apentsak-vitech]

The same problem. API call returns me 3 jobs with truncated name terragrunt-workflow / Plan (provisioning-maradiy-io, provisioning-development, provisioning/terragrunt/provisioning-mar... and I can't identify which I should to select by name.
API should return full job name and truncate on UI.

[wainersm]

This discussion is opened for more than 2 years and not resolution so far. This is a basic UI functionality missing that I believe impacts more people than you may think of.

What can we do for GH's product team to give it proper attention?

[IanTaylor-catapult]

Same here

[nebuk89]

Hey sorry product hasn't responded here.
Let me add this to our paper cuts and also see what design/accessibility have to say about this :) I will ping this over to them now.

Right now I think we truncate based on the screen size :), this means most people are seeing around ~30ish characters here for a name. I would <3 to know what resolutions y'all are testing at that see this much white space :)

[masonhieb]

Thanks for taking a look at this! My screen resolution is 2560x1440 and this is what I see in GitHub actions (I count 31 characters shown in one of the lines that gets cut off). There certainly seems to be a great deal of unused horizontal space. As far as I am aware, there is no way to click-and-drag to enlarge the left column, is that correct?

[nebuk89]

Thank you for such a quick response! You are correct to the best of my knowledge :) I will add a paper cut to our backlog to make this drag-to-enlarge as this seems like a smaller and yet viable solution here. We have quite the backlog of paper cuts! But this will now be on there to be reviewed routinely by our team :)

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[patrickathompson]

anything would be better: resizeable sidebar, hover over with full name shown, or even yml to override and change the job name to multiple lines when nesting is used

[scott-doyland-burrows]

My monitor is 1080p. I'm not doing anything odd with the resolution.

I'm using Windows and it's set to normal/100% resolution andvthe browser is zoomed to 100%.

Hey sorry product hasn't responded here.
Let me add this to our paper cuts and also see what design/accessibility have to say about this :) I will ping this over to them now.

Right now I think we truncate based on the screen size :), this means most people are seeing around ~30ish characters here for a name. I would <3 to know what resolutions y'all are testing at that see this much white space :)