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Read a vCloud Automation Center Model Entity
You can run a workflow to read a vCloud Automation Center model entity.
Procedure
1 From the drop-down menu in the Orchestrator client, select Run or Design.
2 Click the Workflows view.
3 Select Library > vCloud Automation Center > Infrastructure Administration.
4 Right-click Read a vCAC model entity and select Start workflow.
5 Select a vCloud Automation Center host.
6 Enter the name of the model in the Model name text box.
7 Enter the name of the entity set in the Entity set name text box.
You use scripting or a REST API to set the HTTP headers property.
8 Click Submit to run the workflow.
Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Requests Workflows
You can use the requests workflows to request catalog items and resource actions, and to complete or cancel
work items.
You can access these workflows from the Requests subdirectory of the plug-in library in the Workflows
view of the Orchestrator client.
Workflow Description
Cancel a work item Cancels a work item.
Complete a work item Completes a work item.
Request a catalog item Requests a catalog item for the user running the workflow.
Request a catalog item on behalf of another user Requests a catalog item for a specified user.
Request a resource action Requests a resource action for a catalog item owned by the user
running the workflow.
Request a resource action on behalf of another
user
Requests a resource action for a catalog item owned by a specified
user.
Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Sample Workflows
You can use the sample workflows as examples, or as starting points for creating your own custom
workflows.
You can find these workflows in the Sample subdirectory of the plug-in library in the Workflows view of the
Orchestrator client.
Workflow Name Description
Create a permission Provides a sample script that interacts with the authorization client and permission service to
create a new permission in vCloud Automation Center.
Create a tenant Creates a tenant with the same vCAC host and Identity Store configuration as the default tenant.
To run this workflow, select the default tenant as the vCAC Host. You can change the Identity
Store settings before running the workflow.
List catalog items Returns a list of catalog items for the selected tenant.
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