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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
11 From the proposed list, select the resource element or a folder containing resource elements and click
Select.
12 Click Save and close to exit the editor.
You added a resource element or folder of resource elements as an attribute in a Web view.
Disable Web View Development Mode
If you set the Orchestrator server to Web view development mode during the development process, you
must set the Orchestrator server back to its normal mode before you can publish the Web view.
Prerequisites
You must have set the Orchestrator server to Web view development mode and finished modifying the Web
view files in your working folder.
Procedure
1 Log in to the Orchestrator configuration interface by using the your Orchestrator configuration
username and password.
For example, go to https://orchestrator_server_DNS_name_or_IP_address:8283 or https://localhost:8283 in a
Web browser.
2 On the General tab click Advanced Configuration.
3 Deselect the Enable Web view development mode check box.
4 Click Apply changes.
5 On the Startup Options tab click Restart Service to restart the Orchestrator server in normal mode.
You disabled Web view development mode. Orchestrator now publishes Web views from the Orchestrator
server, rather than from the working folder.
What to do next
Publish the Web view.
Publish a Web View
When you finish Web view development and import the modified files to the Web view in the Orchestrator
server, you can publish the Web view.
Prerequisites
You must have a Web view that is ready for publishing. You must also have disabled Web view
development mode.
Procedure
1 From the drop-down menu in the Orchestrator client, select Administer.
2 Click the Web Views view.
3 Right-click the Web view to publish and select Publish.
Orchestrator publishes the Web view at https://orchestrator_server:
8280/vco/vmo/web_view_url_folder/. The IP address or DNS name of the machine on which the
Orchestrator server is running is orchestrator_server. The name of the Web view URL folder is
web_view_url_folder.
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