One of the great benefits of vCloud Automation Center is it's Self-Service capabilities and although vCAC has a great Self-Service experience right out of the gate most organizations are going to want to tailor the request experience match their specific needs. vCAC has many ways this can be done, but one very simple way to do this is through the use of the Property Dictionary. The Property Dictionary allows us to create drop down lists, check boxes, date/time inputs, free form text fields, integer field and other methods of input. In this tutorial I'm going to walk you through using the Property Dictionary to create relational drop down fields that you can leverage to capture additional information from your users at the time of request.
Configuring Property Definitions
- Go to "Enterprise Administrator", then "Property Dictionary", and select "Add Property Definition".
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- Give your property definition a "Name" in this example "Datacenter", assign a "Display Name", choose the "Control Type" of "DropDownList", select "Required" and click the green check mark.
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