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Hiding user inputs

knorman
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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?

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olson
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Greetings,

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

bestinj
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Can the usage of Workflow constants help here?

knorman
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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?

chandank
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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

knorman
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Thanks

bleblanc71
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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

majidm
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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.

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