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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
5 Right-click in the Attributes tab and select Add attribute.
6 Click the attribute name and type a name.
7 Click the attribute Type link and select the attribute type from the list.
8 Click the attribute Value link and type or select the value of the attribute.
You type or select the attribute value depending on the type of the attribute.
9 Click Save and Close to exit the Web view editor.
You defined attributes that direct the Web view to the objects in the Orchestrator server on which it
performs tasks.
What to do next
Add a resource element to a Web view.
Add a Resource Element to a Web View
Resource elements are external objects that you can import into the Orchestrator server for Web views to use
as Web view attributes. Web view attributes identify objects with which Web view components interact.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have the following objects in your Orchestrator server:
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An image, script, XML, or HTML file, or any other type of object imported into Orchestrator as a
resource element.
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A Web view that requires the resource element as an attribute.
Procedure
1 From the drop-down menu in the Orchestrator client, select Administer.
2 Click the Web Views view.
3 If the Web view is running, right-click the Web view to which you want to add the resource element
and select Unpublish.
4 Right-click the Web view and select Edit.
5 Click the Attributes tab.
6 Right-click within the Attributes tab and select Add attribute.
7 Click the attribute name and type a new name for the attribute.
8 Click Type to set the attribute type.
9 In the Select a type dialog box, type resource in the Filter box to search for an object type.
Option Action
Define a single resource element as
an attribute
Select ResourceElement from the list.
Define a folder that contains
multiple resource elements as an
attribute
Select ResourceElementCategory from the list.
10 Click Value and type the name of the resource element or category of resource elements in the Filter
text box.
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