topic Re: Hiding user inputs in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

Hiding user inputs

knorman — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:29:15 GMT

How do we hide a user input field. I'm basically editing the VMware NFS Datastore creation workflow. I need to the vCenter IP address in the workflow however I don't need users to see this input field, only the clusters on the vCenter field. Is there a way to make variable invisible to the users of the workflow while maintain the flexibility that variables give us?

Re: Hiding user inputs

olson — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:24:32 GMT

Greetings,

So unless they are build into your functions as defaults and not required I don't think you can currently do this.

Re: Hiding user inputs

bestinj — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:37:31 GMT

Can the usage of Workflow constants help here?

Re: Hiding user inputs

knorman — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:34:33 GMT

I've looked at both constants and functions. I think the function would be the best way to go but it doesn't appear to be able to be used in a SQL query. I think I'm going to have to figure a way to have the workflow write to the playground database and work off that.

Does anyone happen to have an example of having a workflow write to the playground database?

Re: Hiding user inputs

chandank — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:05:03 GMT

Hi knorman,

Here is the link to the discussion about accessing playground database https://communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-30478.

Currently .net and perl connectors for mysql database have not been bundled, they will be bundled by default in the next release of WFA.

-regards,

chandank

Re: Hiding user inputs

knorman — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:14:21 GMT

Thanks

Re: Hiding user inputs

bleblanc71 — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:58:28 GMT

i did something similar and when you know your input ... put it in quote

cluster name or ip adress*: 'your cluster name' if you don't want to use $xxxxx you have to add your date in quote

Re: Hiding user inputs

majidm — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:25:50 GMT

If you don't want your user variables invisible in UI, then you have to hard code the values in command instance variables field in single quotes (ex: ip address as '10.238.x.x') , this way you prevent the variables to come up into the UI.