From aba4f8e1a147b811273dfc651df06d58eb6d9012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Warriner <6930772+wwarriner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:19:48 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] potential fix

---
 .github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
index 41f6808c..39eb039f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ on: # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
       - "mkdocs.yml"
       - "build_scripts/**"
       - "docs/**"
-  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: "deploy-docs.rc.uab.edu-pages"
+  cancel-in-progress: false
 
 jobs:
   check_markdown:

From ed12dd8b35da21bce351293ef84db3375799332c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Warriner <6930772+wwarriner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:21:16 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add explanatory comment to workflow_dispatch

---
 .github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
index 39eb039f..6efe7bb7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ on: # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
       - "mkdocs.yml"
       - "build_scripts/**"
       - "docs/**"
+  workflow_dispatch: # enables manual docs deployment in case of GitHub service issue
 
 concurrency:
   group: "deploy-docs.rc.uab.edu-pages"