Custom presentation on VMware vRealize Orchestrator workflow

In this article we are going to look at custom presentation of VMware vRealize Orchestrator workflow. Here in this example we would concentrate on the presentation portion rather than the  workflow execution.

Let’s say we have to create a workflow for VM deployment and the presentation should have the options for IP configurations based on the type selected “Static” or “DHCP”.

Below inputs are required to deploy the virtual machine.

  

Input Name	Type	Description
computerName	String	Enter the virtual machine name to create
numCpu	Number	Enter the number of CPUs required for the VM
ram	Number	Enter the ram(GB) required for VM
initStorage	Number	Enter the Initial Storage(GB) required for VM
Dhcp	String	Choose DHCP "Yes" or "No"
IpAddress	String	Enter the IP Address
defaultGateway	String	Enter the Default Gateway
subnetMask	String	Enter the Subnet Mask

Now let’s dive into the workflow.

Step 1) Login to VRO console and create a workflow and go to inputs tab and choose add parameter to add a new input parameter.

Step 2) Click on the new input parameter and change the attribute name to “computerName” and click Ok.

Step 3) Click on the type for the input parameter and choose the required data type. Then click accept to proceed. Here in this example I do not change the data type as the required type is string.

Step 4) Repeat step 1 to step 3 for remaining input parameters and choose the appropriate data type. The workflow input session look as below.

Step 5) now move to the presentation tab of the work flow. Now that we see all input parameter define earlier is visible on presentation tab.

Step 6) Select the first parameter “computerName“ and provide appropriate description.

Step 7) Select the second parameter “numCPU”. Enter the description and choose property as predefined answers. Then click on not set to enter predefined values.

Step 8) Select the parameter RAM and give predefined values.

Step 9) for the net input storage. Give default value as parameter.

Step 10) for “Dhcp” input parameter give the predefined values “yes” or “no”.

  

Step 11) for the next three input parameters ( ipAddress, defaultGateway and subnetMask ). 

Here in this step there are three properties to be observers. There three properties are binded to the #Dhcp input parameter value. If the DHCP input value is yes then these three properties are set to hide. Else the remaining input parameters will be visible in the presentation during workflow execution.

Now let’s run the work flow and see how the presentation looks.