Assigning xaas blueprints to a vRa service

[TimDScott]

Hi All,

I have a workflow that I need to

• Create a new vra service
• Create some new xaas blueprints
• Publish the new blueprints
• Assign the new blueprints to the new service

The first 3 steps work fine, but I can't figure out how to assign the new blueprints to the new service.

The code that creates the blueprints is below, my question is how do I add blueprints to the service? I've looked at getting a list of catalogue items (using vCACCAFEEntitiesFinder.getCatalogItems(host) ), but my blueprints do not appear in the list, I guess there's another step to get my blueprints to show up in the list? I need to do all this in code, end result needs to be the new service containing all the blueprints.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Tim.

[eoinbyrne · Accepted solution]

It seems that only reference to the service is on the CatalogItem.... Which makes sense I guess as that's the item that gets made available to the client / portal

The REST docs for the AdvancedDesigner client don't show any way to set the Service parent of the ServiceBlueprint. The only reference I was able to find was in the CatalogAdmin service which seems to be handling the serviceRef member shown above

Helpfully, the AdminCatalogItemService has a method to list all CatalogItems which have no service so you might be able to just search that for the name of the entry you've just created?

[TimDScott]

Thanks, that has moved me along nicely!

Now have this code:

It's retrieving a list of the unassigned items starting with "NSS -" and assigning to my new group