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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Linking actions in presentations


This recipe will show how to further improve and automate the presentation in workflows by linking actions into the presentation. This is done to present to the user only a specific list of options derived on runtime.

Getting ready

We will create a new workflow and reuse the action we created in the Working with actions recipe in this chapter (see the com.packtpub.vCO-Cookbook module in the example pack).

You should be familiar with the topics we introduced in the Working with presentations recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

  1. Using the Orchestrator Client, create a new workflow.

  2. Create the following variables:

    Name

    Type

    Section

    Use

    string

    String

    IN

    This is a placeholder for the linked action

    number

    Number

    IN

    This is used to select a value from an array

    Array

    Array of String

    Attribute

    This can take values such as Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun

  3. Create a log element and bind all variables so that the workflow validation will succeed.

  4. Click on...