VMs Explorer UI customization

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#1

Dear community.
I am currently working on customisation of miq setup. The goal – is to give to the clients the clean and simple way to do some really basic actions with their VMs (e.g. turn on and off only).

I have created the roles for the users, everything working really fine. My question: is there any way to customize the look and feel of Explorer view? I mean the tables data that is viewable to the user. I have a lot of staff there: Name, Provider, Cluster, Host, Datastore etc.
I would like to remove everything but Name, Allocated size and Power state.

The same thing for detailed view of VM: there are a lot of tables there, is there any way to customize the view?

Thank you in advance!

#2

Hi @vklavi. I don’t believe there’s a way to change the columns that are presented. @himdel Do you know? Otherwise you’d have to modify the report file that drives those screens.

#3

Agreed, the only way to change the columns is to edit the report definition yaml.

Those can be found in manageqiq-ui-classic/product/views/*.yaml , and depending on the context, it will be one of the ones starting with Vm*, except in provider views where ManageIQ*Vm* would get used, and the Instances and Images view - InstanceOrImage .

(Note that the item count in cols+include must match the counts of col_order and headers)

((Or, a similar effect could be achieved in code by filtering head and rows in ApplicationController#view_to_hash.))

Or, if the idea is just to see a list of vms and be able to start&stop, and if those VMs are under a service, maybe the Service UI could be used instead. @vklavi are you aware of that option? (/ui/service on an appliance)

#4

@himdel, @Fryguy, thank you for detailed answers. I will check the option with service.