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Table 4‑11. Properties > Custom Properties Tab Settings (Continued)
Setting Description
Overridable You can specify that the property value can be overridden
by the next or subsequent person who uses the property.
Typically, this is another architect, but if you select Show in
request, your business users are able to see and edit
property values when they request catalog items.
Show in Request If you want to display the property name and value to your
end users, you can select to display the property on the
request form when requesting machine provisioning. You
must also select overridable if you want users to provide a
value.
You can use the Property Groups tab to add and congure seings for existing custom property groups.
You can create your own property groups or use property groups that have been created for you.
Table 4‑12. Properties > Property Groups Tab Settings
Setting Description
Name Select an available property group from the drop-down
menu.
Move Up and Move Down Control the precedence level of listed property groups in
descending order. The rst-listed property group has
precedence over the next-listed property group and so on.
View Properties Display the custom properties in the selected property
group.
View Merged Properties Display all the custom properties in the listed property
groups in the order in which they appear in the list of
property groups. Where the same property appears in
more than one property group, the property name appears
only once in the list based on when it is rst encountered in
the list.
vCloud Air Machine Component Settings
Understand the seings and options that you can congure for a vCloud Air machine component in the
vRealize Automation blueprint design canvas.
General Tab
Congure general seings for a vCloud Air machine component.
Table 4‑13. General Tab Settings
Setting Description
ID Enter a name for your machine component, or accept the default.
Description Summarize your machine component for the benet of other
architects.
Display location on request In a cloud environment, such as vCloud Air, this allows users to select
a region for their provisioned machines.
For a virtual environment, such as vSphere, you can congure the
locations feature to allow users to select a particular data center
location at which to provision a requested machine. To fully congure
this option, a system administrator adds data center location
information to a locations le and a fabric administrator edits a
compute resource to associate it with a location.
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