With the release of Cloud Director 10.2, VMware introduced new features (covered in previous post “VMware Cloud Director 10.2 interface enhancements“, one of them is “Guided Tours”
Guided Tours is a great addition on this release to help administrators and users use wizards to discover vCloud Director interface.
They can be exported as JSON, uploaded to GIT repo and changed as needed
How to create guided tour
Login to Cloud Director as provider administrator. Click More > Guided Tours
Select Record New Tour and Start Recording
Record New Tour keyboard shortcuts are
Control : Select the section to highlight
Control + Alt + D: Add description to the step
Start highlighting your steps and adding description using above commands
In my example I am doing the steps admin follows to see tasks and adding some text
After recording my steps I wanted to modify the text so used Edit Steps option
Once happy with results using Preview click Save Tour
Resulting in a JSON file
Now my JSON file is imported from local file or Git repo
Once imported is visible as new tour on my task bar
JSON Sample of Guided Tour
{"steps":[{"elementSelector":"BODY>:nth-child(1)>:nth-child(1)>.main-container:nth-child(1)>.header:nth-child(5)>:nth-child(2)>.header-actions:nth-child(1)>.active.nav-link:nth-child(4)","description":{"en":"Click monitor"},"preStepRoute":"/monitor/tasks","nextStepTimeout":null,"action":1,"spec":{"requiresClick":true}},{"elementSelector":"BODY>:nth-child(1)>:nth-child(1)>.main-container:nth-child(1)>.content-wrapper:nth-child(6)>.content:nth-child(1)>:nth-child(1)>.nav-bar.subnav:nth-child(1)>.subnav:nth-child(1)>.nav:nth-child(1)>.nav-item:nth-child(1)>.active.nav-link:nth-child(1)","description":{"en":"Click Tasks"},"preStepRoute":"/monitor/tasks","nextStepTimeout":null,"action":1,"spec":{"requiresClick":true}},{"elementSelector":"BODY>:nth-child(1)>:nth-child(1)>.main-container:nth-child(1)>.content-wrapper:nth-child(6)>.content:nth-child(1)>:nth-child(2)>.content-container:nth-child(2)>.datagrid-host:nth-child(2)>.datagrid-outer-wrapper:nth-child(2)>.datagrid-inner-wrapper:nth-child(1)>.datagrid:nth-child(1)>.datagrid-table-wrapper:nth-child(1)>.datagrid-table:nth-child(1)>.datagrid-row:nth-child(2)>.datagrid-row-flex.datagrid-row-master:nth-child(1)>.datagrid-row-scrollable:nth-child(2)>.datagrid-scrolling-cells:nth-child(1)>.datagrid-fixed-width.datagrid-cell.task-column.task-cell:nth-child(8)>.d-block.text-truncate.tooltip:nth-child(1)>.tooltip-trigger:nth-child(1)","description":{"en":"Click on task to see status"},"preStepRoute":"/monitor/tasks","nextStepTimeout":null,"action":1,"spec":{"requiresClick":true}}],"id":"f5bb2e8a-52cc-a020-cf42-a2ca4e5eb0f6","title":{"en":"See tasks"},"description":{"en":"Tour to open tasks"},"scope":["service-provider"]}
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