7.1

Designing an XaaS Blueprint Form
When you create an XaaS blueprint, you can edit the form of the blueprint by adding new elds to the form,
modifying the existing elds, deleting, or rearranging elds. You can also create new forms and form pages,
and drag and drop new elds to them.
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Add a New XaaS Blueprint Form on page 327
When you edit the default generated form of a workow that you want to publish as a XaaS blueprint,
you can add a new XaaS blueprint form.
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Edit an XaaS Blueprint Element on page 328
You can edit some of the characteristics of an element on the Blueprint Form page of a XaaS blueprint.
You can change the type of an element, its default values, and apply various constraints and values.
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Add a New Element on page 329
When you edit the default generated form of a XaaS blueprint, you can add a predened new element
to the form. For example, if you do not want to use a default generated eld, you can delete it and
replace it with a new one.
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Insert a Section Header in a XaaS Blueprint Form on page 330
You can insert a section header to split the form into sections.
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Add a Text Element to an XaaS Blueprint Form on page 330
You can insert a text box to add some descriptive text to the form.
Add a New XaaS Blueprint Form
When you edit the default generated form of a workow that you want to publish as a XaaS blueprint, you
can add a new XaaS blueprint form.
By adding a new XaaS blueprint form, you dene the look and feel of the catalog item details and submied
request details pages. If you do not add a catalog item details and submied request details forms, the
consumer sees what is dened in the request form.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or XaaS architect.
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“Create an XaaS Blueprint,” on page 311.
Procedure
1 Select Design > XaaS > XaaS Blueprints.
2 Click the XaaS blueprint you want to edit.
3 Click the Blueprint Form tab.
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Click the New Form icon ( ).
5 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
6 Select the screen type from the Screen type menu.
Option Description
Catalog item details
A catalog item details page that consumers see when they click a catalog
item.
Request form
The default XaaS blueprint form. The consumers see the request form
when they request the catalog item.
Submitted request details
A request details page that consumers see after they request the item and
want to view the request details on the Request tab.
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