The designer tab is the graphical area which is used to construct your workflow. This graphical layout includes three areas to work with tasks within a workflow.
Tools Area
This area displays all of the Tasks, Workflows, and Operations that are currently available in Intersight, sorted into categories. You can drag and drop a task or a workflow to the grid area to create or edit a workflow. There is also a Search feature to assist the user to find a specific task or workflow.
Tools Area of the Designer Tab within the UI:
Design Area
This area is where you actually build your workflow. A user will drag and drop tasks and workflows from the Tools area to this grid area of the screen. This area includes the following options that you can use while creating the workflow:
- Zoom in/out (zoom controls)
- Auto Align Workflow (aligns all workflow tasks in the grid area)
- Auto Align Selected Workflow Entities (aligns selected entities in the grid area)
- Toggle Task Search (lets user search for a specific task within the workflow)
- Auto Connect Selected Workflow Entity
- NOTE: Auto Connect will add the workflow entity in the design area, and allows a user to drag and drop a task in between existing tasks; possible locations where a task can be added is shown by a green ‘+’ icon
Tools Area of the Designer Tab showing possible drag & drop locations within the UI:
Task Properties Area
This area only displays when a workflow entity is selected; this is where you define the task properties, inputs, outputs, and variables.
The only new value that we have not seen previously is “Outcomes” which are possible values with Executors (our custom Infrastructure as Code tasks)
(NOTE: These values for inputs match the same values as within the “Breakdown of ICO Tasks” section and will not be repeated here.)
Task Properties Area of the Designer Tab within the UI: