Writing Workflows and Action Code for Automation Assembler

Using these best practices, you can write extensibility code and workflows to easily interact with Automation Assembler.

For more information on extensibility in Automation Assembler 8.x, see the Aria Automation 8.x Extensibility Migration Guide.

Use Payload from Event Broker

In Automation Assembler, when you subscribe to an event the event broker triggers a workflow and passes to it a payload. The payload should have all of the data that the workflow needs. If the workflow needs additional data, it is available by calling various VMware Aria Automation 8 service APIs.

Extensibility Actions

In Automation Assembler you can create customized actions, called Action-Based Extensibility (ABX), using python, nodejs, and powershell scripts without dependency on Automation Orchestrator. For more information on ABX, see Learn more about extensibility actions.