Property Group Considerations

vRealize Automation 8 includes these property group considerations.

A property group is a group of custom properties that you can use to customize your Cloud Template. When migrating property groups from vRealize Automation 7.x to vRealize Automation 8.x, review these considerations:

• In vRA 7.x, a property group could be linked to a single tenant or shared across tenants. In vRA 8.x, these property groups are migrated and linked to a single tenant and the name of the tenant is added to the property group name: <propertygroupname>_<tenantname>. If a group is shared across tenants, in vRA 8.x it is migrated as is and without any changes to its name.
• Property groups containing constant properties (show in request: false) are migrated as constant type property groups: <propertygroupname>_constants. Property groups containing editable properties (show in request: true) are migrated as input type property groups: <propertygroupname>_inputs. During migration, if a property group contains both constant and editable properties the property group is split into two property groups: <propertygroupA>_constants and <propertygroupA>_inputs. However, if a property group contains a property that is a dropdown based on a vRO action, then the property group is not split into two property groups.
• If your vRealize Automation 8.x environment contains a property group with the same name as one being migrated, the migrated property group name is amended with a random number: <propertygroupname>_3439553.
• vRealize Automation 8 does not support the use of "-" and "." characters in property names. During migration these characters are replaced with the "_" character.
• Custom properties directly on Cloud Templates or components take precedence over property groups.
• vRealize Automation 8.x supports all property data types. However, vRealize Automation does not support all functionality within those data types. The unsupported functionality is flagged in the migration assessment report.
• vRealize Automation 8.x does not support migrating the display order for properties.

Table 1. Supported Property Group Attributes

Attribute in vRA 7.x		vRA 8.x Mapping
Property Group Attributes
Name		Display Name
ID		Name
Visiblity: all tenants		N/A
Visibility: this tenant		Visibility: this tenant
Description		Description
Property Group Property Attributes
Name		Name
Value		Default Value
Encrypted		Encrypted
Show in request: true		Created as part of an input type property group. If a property definition exists for this property, the definition is applied.
Show in request: false		Created as part of a constant type property group. If a property definition exists for this property, the definition is ignored.
Property Definition Attributes
Name		Name
Label		Display Name
Visibility: all tenants		N/A
Visibility: this tenant		Visibility: this tenant
Description		Description
Display Order		N/A
Property Definition Data Type Attributes
Boolean	Display as: checkbox	Display as: checkbox
	Display as: Yes/No	N/A
Datetime	Required: Yes Required: No	Required: Yes Required: No
	Minimum value Maximum value	N/A
	Display as: Date Time Picker	N/A
Decimal	Required: Yes Required: No	N/A
	Minimum value Maximum value	Minimum value Maximum value
	Increment	N/A
	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: true/ static list: true	N/A
	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: false/ static list: true	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: false/ static list: true
	Display as: Dropdown/ external values	Display as: Dropdown/external values
	Display as: Slider	N/A
	Display as: Textbox	Display as: Textbox
Integer	Required: Yes Required: No	N/A
	Minimum value Maximum value	Minimum value Maximum value
	Increment	N/A
	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: true/ static list: true	N/A
	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: false/ static list: true	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: false/ static list: true
	Display as: Dropdown/external values	Display as: Dropdown/external values
	Display as: Slider	N/A
	Display as: Textbox	Display as: Textbox
Secure String	Required: Yes Required: No	Required: Yes Required: No
	Display as: Password that requires confirmation	N/A
	Display as: Textbox with validation	Display as: Textbox with validation
	Display as: Textbox without validation	Display as: Textbox without validation
String	Required: Yes Required: No	Required: Yes Required: No
	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: true/ static list: true	N/A
	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: false/ static list: true	Display as: Dropdown/static list/ enable custom value entry: false/ static list: true
	Display as: Dropdown/external values	Display as: Dropdown/external values
	Display as: Email	N/A
	Display as: Hyperlink	N/A
	Display as: Textarea	N/A
	Display as: Textbox with validation	Display as: Textbox with validation
	Display as: Textbox without validation	Display as: Textbox without validation