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Configuring a Menu Operation Workflow Overview
You can customize a menu operation workow by using vRealize Automation Designer and the CloudUtil
command-line utility. A blueprint author can then enable it for specic blueprints.
The following is a high-level overview of the steps required to enable menu operation workows:
1 A workow developer customizes one of the menu operation workow templates by using vRealize
Automation Designer. See “Customize an IaaS Workow,” on page 52.
Any IaaS workow can call a vRealize Orchestrator workow. For more information, see “Using
vRealize Orchestrator Workow Activities,” on page 53.
2 A workow developer congures the menu operation in the Model Manager. See “Congure a Menu
Operation,” on page 58.
3 A workow developer registers the new menu operation with the service catalog. See “Register New
Menu Operations with the Service Catalog,” on page 60.
4 A tenant administrator or business group manager congures a blueprint to enable the menu operation
for machines provisioned from that blueprint. See “Congure a Blueprint to Enable a Menu Operation
Workow,” on page 61.
If the menu operation is intended to be used in the service catalog, it must also be entitled to users. For more
information, see Tenant Administration.
Customize an IaaS Workflow
vRealize Automation Designer enables you to edit the customizable workows and update workows in the
Model Manager.
Prerequisites
Launch the vRealize Automation Designer.
Procedure
1 Click Load.
2 Select the workow that you want to customize.
Option Description
WFMachineMenuN
Customizable menu operation workow
WFStubBuildingMachine
Customizable state change workow that executes before a machine enters
the BuildingMachine state
WFStubMachineDisposing
Customizable state change workow that executes before a machine enters
the Disposing state
WFStubMachineExpired
Customizable state change workow that executes before a machine enters
the Expired state
WFStubMachineProvisioned
Customizable state change workow that executes before a machine enters
the MachineProvisioned state
WFStubMachineRegistered
Customizable state change workow that executes before a machine enters
the RegisterMachine state
WFStubUnprovisionMachine
Customizable state change workow that executes before a machine enters
the UnprovisionMachine state
3 Click OK.
The workow displays in the Designer pane.
4 Customize the workow by dragging activities from the Toolbox to the Designer pane and conguring
their arguments.
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