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The WebsiteURIInbox object returns the URL of the Inbox tab on the vRealize Automation console, for
example https://vcac.mycompany.com/shell-ui-app/org/mytenant/#cafe.work.items.list. To
use this object to provide a link to the My Inbox page in the console, consider the following sample lines.
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<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="//WebsiteURIInbox"/></xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of
select="//WebsiteURIInbox"/>here</a>
for your assigned tasks.
The VirtualMachineEx object returns a specific item of information about the machine associated with the
event triggering the email. The information is determined by the attribute provided with the object; see the
table Selected Attributes of the VirtualMachineEx Object for more information. For example, you could
use the following line to include the expiration date of the machine in an email.
<xsl:value-of select="//VirtualMachineEx/Expires"/>
Table 2‑10. Selected Attributes of the VirtualMachineEx Object
Attribute Returns
Name Name of machine as generated by vRealize Automation
Description Machine’s description
DnsName Machine’s DNS name
TemplateName Name of blueprint from which machine was provisioned
StoragePath If a virtual machine, name of storage path on which machine was provisioned
State/Name Status of machine
Owner Owner of machine
Expires Date on which machine expires
ExpireDays Number of days until machine expires
CreationTime Date and time at which machine was provisioned
HostName If a virtual machine, name of host where machine was provisioned
GroupName Name of business group in which machine was provisioned
ReservationName Name of reservation on which machine was provisioned
Group/AdministratorE
mail
Names of users or groups who receive group manager emails for business group for which machine was
provisioned
In addition, the special attribute Properties lets you search the custom properties associated with the
machine for a specific property and return the value if found. For example, to include the value of
Image.WIM.Name, which specifies the name of the WIM image from which a machine was provisioned,
you could use the following lines.
<xsl:for-each select="//VirtualMachineEx/Properties/NameValue">
<xsl:if test="starts-with(Name, 'Image.WIM.Name')">
<xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
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