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Table Of Contents
- Developing Web Views for VMware vCenter Orchestrator
- Contents
- Developing Web Views for VMware vCenter Orchestrator
- Web View Overview
- Weboperator Web View
- Web View Development Tasks to Perform in Orchestrator
- Create a Web View Skeleton
- Export a Web View as a Template
- Create a Web View from a Template
- Define a Web View Template as a Resource Element
- Create a Web View from a Resource Element Template
- Export Web View Files to a Working Folder
- Configure the Server for Web View Development
- Import Web View Files from a Working Folder
- Create a Web View Attribute
- Add a Resource Element to a Web View
- Disable Web View Development Mode
- Publish a Web View
- File Structure of a Web View
- Web View Home Page
- Web View Components
- Tapestry Web View Components
- Creating Tapestry Web View Components
- Orchestrator Tapestry Component Library
- vco:DisplayProperty Component
- vco:IfMemberOf Component
- vco:IncludeJavascript Component
- vco:IncludeStylesheet Component
- vco:IncludeWorkflowHeader Component
- vco:ListPane Component
- vco:Login Component
- vco:PageAccessControl Component
- vco:TaskAction Component
- vco:WebformContainer Component
- vco:WorkflowLink Component
- Accessing Server Objects from URLs
- Create a Simple Web View Using the Default Template
- Import the Default Web View Template
- Export the Virtual Machine Manager Web View to a Working Folder
- Provide Unique Component Names
- Configure the Server for Web View Development
- Edit the Virtual Machine Manager Web View Home Page
- Add a vco:ListPane Component to the Web View Home Page
- Define the Web View Attributes for the vco:ListPane Component
- Create a Web View Component to Display Virtual Machine Information
- Create a Web View Tab by Using the Menu Component
- Add Links to Run Workflows from a Web View by Using the vco:WorkflowLink Component
- Customize the Web View Interface
- Publish the Virtual Machine Manager Web View
- Index
What to do next
Create a new Web view from the template.
Create a Web View from a Template
You can reduce the amount of development work by creating a Web view from a template.
A Web view template is a ZIP file that contains all the files and components of an existing Web view that
you can use as the basis from which to create a new Web view. Orchestrator provides a default Web view
template that you can use as the starting point for Web view development.
Prerequisites
You must have exported an existing Web view to use as a template. Alternatively, you can use the default
Web view template that Orchestrator provides.
Procedure
1 From the drop-down menu in the Orchestrator client, select Administer.
2 Click the Web Views view.
3 Right-click in the white space in the Web view list and select New from > File template.
4 Navigate to a Web view template ZIP file and click Open.
Orchestrator provides a default Web view template at the following location on the Orchestrator server.
Option Action
If you installed the standalone
version of Orchestrator
Go to
install_directory\VMware\Orchestrator\apps\webviewTemplate
s\default_webview.zip
If vCenter Server installed
Orchestrator
Go to
install_directory\VMware\Infrastructure\Orchestrator\apps\w
ebviewTemplates\default_webview.zip
5 Type a name for the new Web view in the Create Web View dialog box and click OK.
By default, the new Web view name is web_view_template_name_FromTemplate.
6 Right-click the Web view in the Web view list and select Edit.
The Web view editor opens.
7 On the General tab, set the URL folder value to include a suffix for the URL on which Orchestrator will
publish the Web view.
For example, if you set the URL folder to MyWebView, Orchestrator publishes the Web view at
https://orchestrator_server:8280/vco/vmo/webview_name/, where orchestrator_server is the IP
address or DNS name of the machine on which the Orchestrator server is running.
By default, the name of the URL folder matches the Web view name, but you can change this value.
NOTE If the Orchestrator server is running in Web view development mode, the URL folder value must
match the name of the working folder in which you are developing the Web view.
8 Click the Version digits to increment the version number for the Web view.
The Version Comment dialog box opens.
9 Type a comment for this version of the Web view and click OK.
For example, type Initial creation if you created the Web view.
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