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Table 4‑7. Custom Action Custom Property Configuration Values
Option Value
Name You can use any string.
Data type Decimal, Integer, or String
Display as Dropdown
Values External
Action folder Location of your custom action.
Script action Name of your custom action.
Input parameters Depends on your custom action.
Blueprint Configuration
Usually you add the custom property on the blueprint Properties tab. Whether you add it to the Properties
tab depends on your action. See “Add a Custom Property to a Blueprint,” on page 95.
Using Property Groups
You can create property groups to collect properties into a single unit.
Property groups are logical and reusable groups of properties, that can include property denitions that you
create or custom properties that are supplied. Property groups are designed to simplify the process of
adding properties to blueprints or other vRealize Automation elements for which they are available. They
provide a means by which logical groupings of properties can be added more eciently than by adding the
properties individually.
A property group typically contains properties that are commonly used together. For example, you can
create a property group named WimImagingProperties that contains properties commonly used for WIM-
based provisioning:
n
Image.ISO.Location
n
Image.ISO.Name
n
Image.Network.Password
n
Image.Network.User
n
Image.WIM.Index
n
Image.WIM.Name
n
Image.WIM.Path
You can also create a property group for vCloud Air or vCloud Director machine provisioning that contains
the following properties:
n
VirtualMachine.Network0.Name
n
VCloud.Template.MakeIdenticalCopy
n
VMware.SCSI.Type
n
Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdmin
n
Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdminPassword
n
Sysprep.Identification.JoinDomain
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