Job, Task, and Workflow names are all unnecessarily truncated in the workflow/pipeline UI

[IanTaylor-catapult]

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Multiple people in my org have reached out about the frustrating UI experience that GitHub Actions has in regards to longer / hierarchical names for jobs, tasks, and workflows. It would be really nice if the Actions team could add either options for configuring your pipeline view, or just lengthened the amount of characters that are displayed.

An example of what is bothering people...

As you can see, everything is truncated. Granted, the names here are a bit overly verbose, but the lack of any options for more verbose task, job, and workflow names is very frustrating. It would be nice if the jobs section on the left side of the screen could have an adjustable width. It would be nice if we could have multiple line, or expanded, names in the pipeline UI. Any improvement here would be appreciated.

Any chance that the Actions team(s) can take a look at this? I've seen multiple similar discussions, but they've all sat stale for way too long.

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[inwenis]

you can add this as a bookmark and when you click on it you get full names

javascript:void(function(){let f=2,c=document.querySelector('[data-target="action-graph.stages"]');if(!c)return;c.style.transform=`scaleX(${f})`;c.parentElement.style.overflow='scroll';document.querySelectorAll('.WorkflowJob-title').forEach(e=>{e.style.transform=`scaleX(${1/f})`;e.style.transformOrigin='left';e.style.width=`${f*100}%`});document.querySelectorAll('.css-truncate-overflow,.css-truncate').forEach(e=>{e.style.overflow='visible';e.style.textOverflow='unset';e.style.maxWidth='none'});document.querySelectorAll('streaming-graph-job').forEach(j=>{let t=j.querySelector('tool-tip');if(!t)return;let n=j.querySelector('[data-target="streaming-graph-job.name"]');if(n)n.textContent=t.textContent.trim();j.querySelectorAll('.css-truncate-overflow>span:not([data-target]),.css-truncate-overflow>[data-target="streaming-graph-job.ellipsis"]').forEach(s=>s.remove());let d=j.querySelector('.css-truncate-overflow');if(d){d.style.overflow='visible';d.style.whiteSpace='nowrap';d.style.maxWidth='none';d.style.textOverflow='unset'}});}())

same script formatted:

javascript: void(function() {
    let f = 2,
        c = document.querySelector('[data-target="action-graph.stages"]');
    if (!c) return;
    c.style.transform = `scaleX(${f})`;
    c.parentElement.style.overflow = 'scroll';
    document.querySelectorAll('.WorkflowJob-title').forEach(e => {
        e.style.transform = `scaleX(${1/f})`;
        e.style.transformOrigin = 'left';
        e.style.width = `${f*100}%`
    });
    document.querySelectorAll('.css-truncate-overflow,.css-truncate').forEach(e => {
        e.style.overflow = 'visible';
        e.style.textOverflow = 'unset';
        e.style.maxWidth = 'none'
    });
    document.querySelectorAll('streaming-graph-job').forEach(j => {
        let t = j.querySelector('tool-tip');
        if (!t) return;
        let n = j.querySelector('[data-target="streaming-graph-job.name"]');
        if (n) n.textContent = t.textContent.trim();
        j.querySelectorAll('.css-truncate-overflow>span:not([data-target]),.css-truncate-overflow>[data-target="streaming-graph-job.ellipsis"]').forEach(s => s.remove());
        let d = j.querySelector('.css-truncate-overflow');
        if (d) {
            d.style.overflow = 'visible';
            d.style.whiteSpace = 'nowrap';
            d.style.maxWidth = 'none';
            d.style.textOverflow = 'unset'
        }
    });
}())