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Property groups, which can be included in a blueprint, to apply all the custom properties in the group
to all machines provisioned from the blueprint.
A blueprint can contain one or more property groups.
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A machine request to apply the custom properties to the machine being provisioned.
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An approval policy, if advanced approval support is enabled, to require approvers to provide values for
the machine being approved.
The following list shows the order of precedence for custom properties. Property value specied in a source
that appears later in the list override values for the same property specied in sources that appear earlier in
the list.
N If a conict exists between a vRealize Automation-supplied custom property name and a user-
dened property name, the vRealize Automation-supplied custom property name takes precedence.
1 Property group
2 Blueprint
3 Business group
4 Compute resource
5 Reservations
6 Endpoint
7 Runtime
Property group, blueprint, and business group custom properties are assigned at request time, while other
compute resource, reservation, and endpoint properties are assigned during provisioning.
This order is further claried as follows:
1 Custom properties and groups at the overall blueprint level
2 Custom properties and groups at the component level
3 Custom properties for the business group
4 Custom properties for the compute resource
5 Custom properties for the reservation
6 Custom properties for the endpoint
7 Custom properties at the nested blueprint request level
8 Custom properties at the component request level
In most situations, a runtime property takes precedence over other properties. A runtime property meets the
following conditions:
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The property option to prompt the user is selected, which species that the user must supply a value for
the property when they request machine provisioning.
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A business group manager is requesting machine provisioning and the property appears in the custom
properties list on the machine request conrmation page.
There are exceptions to the precedence rules. For example, you add the VMware.VirtualCenter.Folder
custom property to a business group, provide a property value, and do not select the option to show the
property in the request. You add the same custom property to a blueprint and specify that the property be
shown in the request. When your designated users request provisioning from the catalog, the property does
not appear in the catalog request form because the property applies to reservation information that is only
available after provisioning begins, and not when you request provisioning.
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