Working with user interactions

This recipe will teach us how to create user interactions. User interactions are additional inputs that can be asked of users during the workflow execution.

Getting ready

We need to be able to create a new workflow.

For this recipe, you will need to have more than one AD/LDAP/SSO group configured to access Orchestrator. Remember that you can use the Orchestrator internal LDAP to test this. To facilitate this, please follow the recipe User management in Chapter 7, Interacting with Orchestrator.

For the example, in the There's more... section, we will also showcase the interaction with the vSphere Web Client.

How to do it...

We will split this recipe into two parts, the creation of the interaction workflow and the test run ...

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