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Add your production-datacenter property group to a blueprint. See Add a Custom Property or
Property Group as a Blueprint Machine Property.
Add a Custom Property to a Blueprint
You can add custom properties to many parts of vRealize Automation, including approval policies,
business groups, endpoints, and reservation policies. However, only the machine blueprints support the
display options that you configure as property definitions. Adding a custom property to a blueprint as a
simple way to verify that the custom property appears in the user interface as you designed it in the
property definition.
Some custom properties are associated with the virtual machine blueprint on the Properties tab and
some are on the Network tab.
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Add a Custom Property or Property Group as a Blueprint Machine Property
You add a custom property as a machine custom property so that service catalog users can select of
configure the values when they request the item. You can add individual properties or property
groups.
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Add a Custom Property as a Network Custom Property
Add a custom property as a network custom property so that service catalog users can select the
necessary network profile value when they request the item.
Add a Custom Property or Property Group as a Blueprint Machine Property
You add a custom property as a machine custom property so that service catalog users can select of
configure the values when they request the item. You can add individual properties or property groups.
In this workflow, you add the custom properties to validate that they are working as expected in
blueprints. You can also add custom properties to business groups, approval policies, and other
components.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you created the required property definition. See Create Custom Property Definitions.
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If you are adding a property group, verify that you added the relevant property definitions to a
property group. See Create a Property Group. To test the visual functions of the property definitions,
you must select Show in request when you add the property to the group.
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If you are adding a vRealize Orchestrator action as a custom property, review the configuration
details to ensure that you addrf the custom property in the correct location. See Configuration Details
for the vRealize Orchestrator Action Custom Property Definitions.
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Verify that you created the blueprint to which you are adding the custom property. See Configuring
vRealize Automation.
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Log in to vRealize Automation as an infrastructure architect.
Procedure
1 Select Design > Blueprints.
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