Drone steps not triggering on pull request

Drone Support
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I have a Drone pipeline containing steps that I would like to trigger on a pull_request to specific branches, and on promotion to specific environments. The correct steps are triggered when I promote the build to the desired environments. The issue is that the steps are not triggering on a pull request. I’ve checked the Drone docs and am not sure what I’m doing wrong. Any help is appreciated!

Trigger clause for the affected steps (please ignore syntax, edited for this comment):

when:
branch:
-development
-PM-*
event:
-pull_request
-promote
target:
-test
-testing

The intended functionality is to have these steps trigger when promoted to test/testing environments. This is only ever done from source branches matching PM-*, and is working correctly.

What is not working is when a pull request to the development is opened/updated, these steps are not triggered.

What am I not understanding?

Thanks!

2

Hi @Jason_Wright ,

I’m wondering if the problem is the mix of pull_request event and target

what happens if you split it into 2 seperate (but functionally identical) steps, something like

step1:
when:
event: pull_request
step2:
when:
event: promote
target:
-test
-testing

3

Hi @d1wilko, thank you for your response!

Yes I can do that and it works as I intend, but I’m trying to avoid duplicating the steps as there are quite a lot of them and that would mean duplicate code to maintain.

If it is not possible to mix pull request event & target triggers I will just duplicate the steps, but thought I would ask the question as I can’t see anywhere in the Drone docs which explicitly states these triggers can’t be used together.

Thanks,
Jason

4

Ok I am glad to hear that works

But I agree the docs aren’t clear on this - I will have a look at the code and try to figure out what the actual intended behaviour