Reference output from previous job GH Actions - github-actions

Question

I am attempting to use GitHub Actions for a complete pipeline, including automatic SemVer versioning (using tags) that I would then like to consume after building my Docker image to tag it with the current version. This is the action that I am using to bump the version, which should have a new_tag output but I cannot reference it, this is what I am trying:
jobs:
setup:
...
version:
needs: [setup]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
with:
fetch-depth: '0'
- name: Bump version and push tag
uses: anothrNick/github-tag-action#1.26.0
id: autoversion
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
WITH_V: true
sonar:
...
anchore:
...
docker:
needs: [setup, version]
steps:
...
- name: Build and push
uses: docker/build-push-action#v2
with:
context: .
push: true
tags: ansfire/flaskql:${{ needs.version.autoversion.outputs.new_tag }}
From what I have read using the needs key is supposed to allow one job to access upstream jobs but I cannot get it to access this. Do I need an outputs key in the version stage? Thanks!

Answer 1

Look into this answer, you need to define the outputs in the job creating the outputs, i.e.
jobs:
version:
[...]
outputs:
new_tag: ${{ steps.autoversion.outputs.new_tag }}
docker:
[...] tags: ansfire/flakql:${{ needs.version.outputs.new_tag }}