vRA Blueprint Catalog item details tab | description customization?

[r0j]

Hello again...

Has anyone played with updating the description field, or adding custom field for a Deployment item (Item Details | Details tab) in vRA?

Users can add their own description information in the baked in field during the catalog request time (most of the time they don't :smileyshocked:), and since this is the first page a user sees when selecting one of their deployment items in vRA, we figured it would be a good place to add more useful information on the deployment.

For example, a Linux appliance with web services, and inserting a url to connect to that service.

It's always a challenge giving users information relevant to their deployments and having it stick, and emails are not the answer to everything.

:smileylaugh:

Looking for any ideas, so putting this out there.

Thanks as always...

[daphnissov · Accepted solution]

Changing details after a deployment exists isn't functionality that is there today, I believe. This gets stored in the vPostgres database, so would require some ugly hacking to accomplish that. Adding custom tabs is also not a supported thing since that's in the model for the deployment.

[r0j]

That's unfortunate...

More flexibility on customizing the interface, would be a welcome addition in future versions.

:smileycheck: