Workflwo Output/Result Presentation

[VinnieP]

Hello,

Quite a newcomer to the vco world.

Here is my newbie question: is it possible with vco to create some sort of interactive workflows, or to put it differently to Present the workflow's result or output to the user ?

For example, let's say I want to create a workflow that

1- moves all VMS from an ESX

2 - Put the ESX in Maintenance mode.

3 - Display some sort of result, lets' say

     -a confirmation that the esx is in maintenance mode

     -a confirmation that all VMs respond to ping

     - or which esx the vindividual vms were migrated to.

How would I achieve this 3rd step?  I understand we can use the Presentation for organising the input parameters in a kind of form, but is there a way to Present Output parameters in the same (or another form) once the workflow is complete.

many thanks in advance for your answers.

V

[iiliev]

You can use a combination of nested workflow(s) to perform the first two steps and user interaction to display confirmation result in the 3rd step.

Hope this helps.

[VinnieP]

Hello,

Thank you for your answer, but my problem is that I don't know how to display results.

I didn't find the feature to do that. Could you give more details about how to achieve this ?

Thx,

[iiliev]

Take a look how it is done in the workflow 'Import a certificate from URL' (in Library\Configuration\SSL Trust Manager).

The basic idea is that you collect the results from the nested workflow executions you want to display in one or more attributes, and in the user interaction node you bind these attributes as interaction's external inputs.

[cdecanini_ · Accepted solution]

You add a user interaction element in your schema from the palette on the left. You set the external attributes of the configuration elements and you set in the presentation tab of the user interaction these attribute to have a default value of the attributes you want to display.

[VinnieP]

This is what I'd missed !
thx !