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I'm trying to create a GitHub action, but the "Actions" tab doesn't exist in my repository:

Image of Missing Actions tab

This GitHub documentation page advised navigating to the "Settings" tab, then selecting "Actions" from the left sidebar and enabling them.

Image of missing Actions tab from Settings tab

My next thought was that my organization disabled actions, so I followed the steps on this GitHub documentation page about managing actions for your organization. But again, I go to Your organizations -> Settings and look for "Actions" in the left sidebar, and it's nowhere to be found.

Image of missing Actions tab from organization settings

Then I think that maybe I'm missing Admin privileges, so I check the "People" tab under my organization, and I'm an "Owner," which my research tells me is the same as Admin.

Image of Owner Privileges

So here we are. Any ideas as to why the Actions tab is missing from everywhere in my organization?

Krzysztof Madej
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dalton_b
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  • Is your enterprise Blob storage configured? [reference](https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.0/admin/github-actions/enabling-github-actions-for-github-enterprise-server/getting-started-with-github-actions-for-github-enterprise-server#external-storage-requirements). I also saw someone with the same problem solving it configuring it [here](https://github.community/t/actions-tab-missing/16696/5). – GuiFalourd Sep 08 '21 at 23:25
  • This is definitely moving me in the right direction, but I'm getting lost at the first step: "From an administrative account on GitHub Enterprise Server, click [rocket ship] in the upper-right corner of any page." I don't see the rocket ship symbol when I'm logged into GitHub, even though it's an Enterprise account. Is GitHub Enterprise Server a different thing entirely? – dalton_b Sep 08 '21 at 23:48
  • It depends the kind of organization and plan you use. [reference](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github/types-of-github-accounts#organization-accounts). It can be free, or not. – GuiFalourd Sep 09 '21 at 00:36
  • Ok, that makes sense, thank you for the help – dalton_b Sep 09 '21 at 16:40

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I had to go to Settings > Action > Allow all actionsenter image description here

Mohammad Zaid Pathan
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While I wasn't able to solve my problem, I'm going to mark it as resolved - see GuiFalourd's comment about configuring Blob storage (references here and here). I don't think my organization has a GitHub Enterprise Server account, and it looks like you need to pay extra for services like that. So while I can't solve the problem myself, hopefully this points someone with the same problem in the right direction.

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  • GitHub Free and GitHub Teams both support actions, I ran across this same issue a few days ago as I wanted to setup a self-hosted runner. However we were using a GitHub Legacy plan which doesn't support actions, migrating to GitHub Teams solved the issue – James Oct 01 '21 at 16:28