# Using pipeline conditionals in the UI for block steps

**URL:** <https://forum.buildkite.community/t/using-pipeline-conditionals-in-the-ui-for-block-steps/915>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/using-pipeline-conditionals-in-the-ui-for-block-steps/915 "2020-02-10T18:47:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevingrandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kevingrandon](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/kevingrandon)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/using-pipeline-conditionals-in-the-ui-for-block-steps/915/1 "2020-02-10T18:47:59Z")

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Is it possible to use pipeline conditionals in the buildkite UI?

We would like to use conditionals to skip a block step if a commit author is a member of a team or not. This needs to happen in the UI I believe because it needs to run before the pipeline upload. We want to use this to prevent running third party PRs before reviewing them.

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**Author:** ![kevingrandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kevingrandon](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/kevingrandon)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/using-pipeline-conditionals-in-the-ui-for-block-steps/915/2 "2020-02-10T18:55:54Z")

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Never mind, the obvious fix for this is to [convert pipeline steps to YAML](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/defining-pipeline-build-steps-with-yaml/79). I’ll leave this topic here in case people come across it from searching.