diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
index 8bcd36ab3056f90af1f8ceb802cc3c28e565296b..8dd8514482115de69462fa77a18dffa4d9c4ffe6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
             echo "project_name=$PROJECT_NAME"
         } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
       env:
-        CHANNEL: inputs.channel
+        CHANNEL: ${{ inputs.channel }}
     - name: steps::checkout_repo
       uses: actions/checkout@93cb6efe18208431cddfb8368fd83d5badbf9bfd
       with:
diff --git a/tooling/xtask/src/tasks/workflows/deploy_docs.rs b/tooling/xtask/src/tasks/workflows/deploy_docs.rs
index 1cabe4ced89289344306ec8b92640df1b5a0b611..515b0e647089a96e6ee72453f3765bbaaba2e3e0 100644
--- a/tooling/xtask/src/tasks/workflows/deploy_docs.rs
+++ b/tooling/xtask/src/tasks/workflows/deploy_docs.rs
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ pub(crate) fn deploy_docs_job(
     checkout_ref_input: &WorkflowInput,
 ) -> NamedJob {
     docs_job(
-        channel_input.expr(),
+        channel_input.to_string(),
         Some(format!(
             "${{{{ {} != '' && {} || github.sha }}}}",
             checkout_ref_input.expr(),