What contexts can be used when setting a GitHub Action job name?

Question

I'd like to set a GitHub Action job name using the value of a variable set in the environment, but the following straightforward approach fails with an error about Unrecognized named-value: 'env':

env:
  SERVER: https://example.com

...

jobs:
  Send_to_server:
    name: "Send to ${{env.SERVER}}"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      ...

In GitHub's documentation, there is an example of using the vars context and another example of using the strategy context. Based on the error I get, I guess the env context cannot be used in this situation. What other contexts can be used in the definition of the job name?

Answer 1

jobs.<job_id>.name has github, needs, strategy, matrix, vars and inputs contexts.

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This is normally written in the documentation as it varies for the different places.

From the link in your question:

For details of where you can use various contexts within a workflow, see "Contexts."

That is linked to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/contexts#context-availability and titled Context availability.

Search the table in that section for location you're interested in.