New action request for copilot publish

[prabdeb]

Requesting for new action that will publish Copilot after solution import.

Reference command: pac copilot publish

[devkeydet]

I will defer to the GitHub Actions for Power Platform team on the feature request, but have a workaround to unblock you for now. GitHub Actions for Power Platform have an "escape hatch" when the actions haven't caught up to the underlying pac commands. When you use actions-install, set add-tools-to-path: true. By doing so, you get the version of pac that the actions use. You can then use it directly in script actions. Here's an example:

name: use-pac-from-actions
on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Install Power Platform Actions
        uses: microsoft/powerplatform-actions/actions-install@v1
        with:
          add-tools-to-path: true
      - name: create pac auth profile
        shell: pwsh
        run: |
          # create a pac auth profile
          pac auth create --name temp-for-workflow --url ${{ secrets.ENVIRONMENT_URL }} --applicationId ${{ secrets.APP_ID }} --clientSecret ${{ secrets.CLIENT_SECRET }} --tenant ${{ secrets.TENANT_ID }}
      - name: use pac
        shell: pwsh
        run: |
          # use pac with the profile created
          pac auth who

Following this approach/pattern, you should be able to use pac copilot publish directly.

[prabdeb]

Thanks @devkeydet the similar workaround we have taken for our implementation. From the same learnings, I am going to raise two PR's in this and CLI Wrapper repository, please have a look if they will work.