5.5

Add a vco:ListPane Component to the Web View Home Page
You can add a vco:ListPane component to the Virtual Machine Manager Web view home page to display a
list of vCenter Server objects.
Prerequisites
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Import the default Web view template into the Orchestrator server.
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Export the contents of the default Web view template to a working directory.
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Configure the Orchestrator server for Web view development.
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Open the default.html file in an HTML editor.
Procedure
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Add a vco:ListPane Component to the default.html file to add a list of virtual machines in the page.
You add a vco:ListPane Component by adding the following <p> tag after the instruction to click a
virtual machine.
<vco jwcid="@layout/VMMBorder" section="literal: home" title="Virtual Machine Manager">
<p style="margin-left: 16px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;">
Click one of the virtual machines in your inventory to display its information.
</p>
<hr />
<p jwcid="@vco:ListPane"
action="getVirtualMachineList"
actionParameters="attribute:vmFolder"
detailUrl="./panel.html"/>
</vco>
The <p> tag instantiates the vco:ListPane component with the following properties:
Table 8‑2. Properties of the vco:ListPane component
Property Description
jwcid= "@vco:ListPane" Refers to the vco:ListPane component, to add a list of
virtual machines from the server inventory to the Web
view.
action= "getVirtualMachineList"
Links to a Web view attribute that runs an action in the
Orchestrator server to retrieve a list of virtual machines.
actionParameters= "attribute:vmFolder" Passes parameters to the getVirtualMachineList
action. The actionParameters property passes the
vmFolder Web view attribute to the action, to retrieve a
list of the virtual machines from a virtual machine
folder.
detailUrl= "./panel.html"
The path to an HTML page in which to display
information about each virtual machine in the list.
You added a component to the Virtual Machine Manager Web view that obtains a list of virtual machines
from a given folder in vCenter Server.
NOTE You create the Web view attributes that the vco:ListPane component requires in the Orchestrator
client.
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