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Advanced JavaScript Snippets in vRO
Some slightly modern JavaScript that works in vRO’s Rhino engine: lodash as an external module, first-class functions, Object.defineProperty, custom classes with prototypes, private variables, labels, the…
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Official VMware Guides for vRO and vRA 8.x
Download links for VMware’s official PDF guides on Aria Automation (vRA 8.x) and Orchestrator: Assembler, Pipelines, Consumption, Config, migration, ServiceNow, load balancing, installation, developer and plug-in…
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Code Obfuscation in Orchestrator
Does Orchestrator run obfuscated JavaScript? A quick experiment: take a vRO action that decodes vSphere license details, run it through obfuscator.io, paste the scrambled output back…
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Automatically Log Task and Action Names in Big Workflows
Log a start and end message in every scriptable task so a failed run points straight to the broken step. System.currentWorkflowItem() keeps the task names in…
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Generate vRO Workflow Runs Report in CSV
A workflow that pulls the last 30 days of Orchestrator workflow runs from the catalog REST API, turns them into a CSV report and emails it…
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List of All Available Node.js Modules in Orchestrator 9.1 and 8.12
Which Node.js modules can you require() in an Orchestrator action without extra packages? The full list of 72 built-in modules for the Node.js 24 runtime in…
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Build a Notification Bot with Google Chat for Aria Orchestrator
Send Orchestrator notifications straight to a Google Chat space with an incoming webhook. No bot to host and no SMTP setup: one small action posts a…
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A Brief Investigation of const in Orchestrator 9.1
VCF Operations Orchestrator 9.1 runs a newer Rhino engine with plenty of ES6, but const only half works. Test results show reassignments silently ignored without “use…
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Experiencing GitHub Copilot as a vRO Developer
How did GitHub Copilot handle vRO JavaScript during its 2021 Technical Preview? It needed steady guidance at first, then gave more sensible suggestions over time. Since…
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Cyclic Workflows in Aria Automation Orchestrator
A workflow can loop back to an earlier item until a condition is met. Here’s a cyclic workflow built around a switch-case, a small part-of-the-day example,…
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Find a REST Operation by Method and URL Template in Aria Orchestrator
IDs change between environments, so finding a REST operation by ID can break promoted code. This small vRO script finds a REST:RESTOperation by its method and…
