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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

You're reading from  VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Pages 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
Profile icon Daniel Langenhan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration 3. Distributed Design 4. Programming Skills 5. Visual Programming 6. Advanced Programming 7. Interacting with Orchestrator 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working 9. Essential Plugins 10. Built-in Plugins 11. Additional Plugins 12. Working with vSphere 13. Working with vRealize Automation

Linking actions in presentations


This recipe will show how to further improve and automate presentations in workflows by linking actions into them. 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 getElementFromArray, which we created in the recipe Creating actions in Chapter 6, Advanced Programming (see the com.packtpub.Orchestrator-Cookbook2ndEdition module in the example pack).

You should be familiar with the topics we introduced in the recipe Workflow presentations 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...

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