Github Actions outcome is not retrieved

Question

I'm attempting to run the following .yml with GitHub Actions, but the outcome from the steps is not retrieved or null.

The documentation for outcome is here.

name: run test for outcome
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  run-test-for-outcome:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: step1
        id: step1
        continue-on-error: true
        run: |
          echo step 1

      - name: test
        run : echo ${{ steps.step1.outcome }}

However, if I run the following:

name: run test for outcome
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  run-test-for-outcome:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: step1
        id: step1
        continue-on-error: true
        run: |
          echo step 1

      - name: test
        run : echo ${{ steps.step1.success }}

the value returned is true.

Why is that? Why isn't outcome working as intended?

Answer 1

I actually found the problem I was running the workflow locally using https://github.com/nektos/act and that appears to be the problem. When I did test it under Github, the outcome and every step context is working as intended.

Thank you.