How to show a variable in Input Form

[cschn]

Hi

When I start my Workflow, I read a JSON file from a Ressource Element, see example below. Now I want to to display the "JSON-Version", which is included in the JSON file, at runtime in the Workflow Input Form as a controll for the user.

Is this possible? If yes, how?

{

   "JSON-Version": "1.0",

   "hosts": {

        "host": {

             "hostname": "192.168.1.111",

             "username": "admin",

             "password": ""

          }

     }

}

Any advise will be appriciated!

[iiliev · Accepted solution]

Hi,

What kind of control do you want to show?

In the simplest case, if you just want to display it on the form as a simple text, you can do it by:

1. Create a vRO scripting action (return type - string) and inside it, add some scripting code that will read resource element, fetch the JSON-version attribute, and return it as a string
2. In the workflow input form, add a new Text Field element, then in its properties' Values tab select 'Value source' to be 'External source', and in 'Select action' choose the action created on step 1

That's it. Now, when you run the workflow, you should see the value read from your resource element shown in the UI text field control.

[cschn]

Hi Illian

That was exactly what I looked for. It works very well.

Actually I'm working with vRO 8.0.1 and the HTLM5 interface is a bit strange to me. Especially since there is no good documentation available, or I was not able to find one.

Thank you very much, you saved me a lot of time 🙂

Greetings

Chris