New and Changed Information

This chapter contains the following sections:

New and Changed Information for This Release

The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to this guide or of all new features in this release.

New and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director Release 6.7(4.0)

Feature Description Where Documented

Introduction of new options while for configuring rollback for a workflow.

While creating a workflow, the user interface includes the following new options:

  • Rollback Workflow on Failure

  • Abort Rollback on Failure (displayed only if you check the Rollback Workflow on Failure)

Defining a Workflow
Behavior change of an approval task used within a loop task of a workflow. When an approval task is used within a loop task of a workflow, the approval request will be initiated to the mapped user for each iteration.

Approvals

Introduction of Quick Export option for workflows.

Starting with this release, you can use the Quick Export option to select multiple workflows and export them in a consolidated file to a location on your system.

Running a Quick Export on Workflows

New and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director Release 6.7

Feature Description Where Documented

Clone a Workflow Task in the Workflow Designer

You can clone a task to create another instance of the task in the workflow. In contrast to a task instance created by dragging and dropping, the new task is populated with the cloned task's parameter values.

Cloning a Task

Improved Looping in Workflows

When incrementing by count, you can specify a starting index and a step increment (or decrement, if negative) in the Start Loop task.

Looping in Workflows
Input and Global Variable Scoping In cases where a task or workflow input variable has the same name as a global variable, the value of the local variable is displayed. The global value is "hidden" for the duration of the workflow.

Input and Global Variable Scoping

Nested Variable Evaluation in Workflows

You can nest variable references in Orchestration workflows. References are evaluated starting with the innermost reference and evaluating outward to any number of levels.

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Addition of a new service request global variable

This release introduces the following variable for service requests:

  • ${ROOT_SR_ID}—The ID of the top most parent service request.

Service Request Global Variables