Actions and Workflows Supporting Common OperationsLast Updated February 5, 2025
Actions and workflows can be written by using the Automation Orchestrator plug-in for VMware Aria Automation scripting objects and/or the REST client of the VMware Aria Automation plug-in.
When writing actions and workflows by using the REST API, you must follow these guidelines:
- Create actionandCreate workflowsmust return the object ID received in the payload or in the "location" response header after invoking a POST operation.
- DeleteandUpdateactions and workflows must have an ID input to pass to the REST query.
- Workflows run by the end user must have an input form that retrieves object names and IDs that return an array of properties.
To test REST API calls, you can use two sample workflows.
- TheInvoke VRA 8 REST Operation from URLsample workflow allows you to enter free form URLs.
- TheInvoke VRA 8 REST Operation from swagger and display resultsample workflow provides a drop-down menu of services, operations, and URLs based on the VMware Aria Automation server Swagger.
