Automated email script (dynamic wrapper)

[airinaga]

Hey everyone,

   I am running the 'Relocate Virtual Machine Disk' workflow, and would like for it to generate a simple email stating which VM and what Datastore the new disks are living in. The text enlarged and in bold is what I had added to the original 'Send Notification' script. I would like a clean looking email without the "Dynamic Wraper" and Instance stuff.

Here is my 'Send Email' script:

var message = new EmailMessage();

// Override default settings if and only if input parameter is set

if ( smtpHost != null && smtpHost.length > 0 ){

    message.smtpHost = smtpHost;

}

if ( smtpPort != null && smtpPort > 0 ){

    message.smtpPort = smtpPort;

}

if ( username !=null && username.length > 0){

    message.username = username;

}

if ( password != null && password.length > 0){

    message.password = password;

}

if ( fromName != null && fromName.length > 0){

    message.fromName = fromName;

}

if ( fromAddress != null && fromAddress.length > 0){

    message.fromAddress = fromAddress;

}

message.toAddress = toAddress;

message.subject = subject;

message.addMimePart( "Virtual Machine: " + vm + "Relocated disk to: " + datastore, "text/html; charset=UTF-8");

System.log( "sending mail to host: " + message.smtpHost + ":" + message.smtpPort + " with user:" + message.username

            + ", from:" + message.fromAddress + ", to:" + message.toAddress );

message.sendMessage();

And this is the email that I am receiving:

Virtual Machine: DynamicWrapper (Instance) : [VcVirtualMachine]-[class com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.model.VimVirtualMachine] -- VALUE : VirtualMachine'Test VM'Relocated disk to: DynamicWrapper (Instance) : [VcDatastore]-[class com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.model.VimDatastore] -- VALUE : Datastore'Windows_Lab'

[qc4vmware · Accepted solution]

Use vm.name and datastore.name.  Also for simple text formatting you can use methods on the string.  So if you want the vm.name in bold and at a 16 point font you could say:

vm.name.bold().fontsize.("16");

You can google the full list of options for javascript.  You can also just include the markup in the string like you did above.