Hi All,
I am trying to design some WFA workflow for creating volumes. Seems pretty simple eh?
In this case, the SVM where a new volume should be created can vary depending on the customers desired "network zone" e.g. where the volume should be reachable from.
I would like to add this extra user input "Required Zone" into my creation workflow.
When I read about EDM package I thought "this is pefect for what I want to do!". I have imported it into WFA (4.1) and created a custom spreadsheet. As far as I can tell, everything is working e.g. under "Dictionary" I see my new "net_zones" object with the attributes like "zone_name", "svm_name", "svm_ip", "zone_description", etc.
I just seem to have one problem: How do I make use of this in WFA? I'm not sure what the next step(s) is/are to be able to offer this as menu to the user. I am imagining the user selecting one of the "zone_name" values and the SVM/vserver field being filled with the associated "svm_name" value.
I cannot seem to refer to it directly in the input field for the SVM/vserver. Selecting a resource there seems to limited to only "vserver" related filters.
Do I have to create new Filters and/or Finders, with SQL commands that select from my "net_zone" information? That seems overly complicated ...
The EDM user guide has a detailed description of the implementation, but no explanation of how to access the new data from within WFA. I guess the authors assume the reader has more more knowledge of WFA than I do - not hard 😉
Please let me know the vital next step! Or if this is the wrong approach, feel free to suggest an alternative.
Cheers,
Robb.