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  1. Adding a "Create New" button in Graphical Runbook configuration when adding input parameters

    when configuring input parameters for a cmdlet in the graphical runbook canvas, if there are no inputs configured, you'll get an "No item to display" message and you have to go back and add input parameters. However, you will lose unsaved changes if you go back. To make it more user friendly, would it be better if there's a "Create New" button next to the "No item to display" message so users can create input parameters without having to go back and lose unsaved changes.

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    0 comments  ·  Graphical authoring  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  Beth Cooper responded

    Thanks for voting for this suggestion. We will look into adding functionality that makes adding input parameters from cmdlet configuration easier.

  2. Copy/paste activities in graphical runbooks

    Would be nice to copy/paste activities when editing graphical runbooks.
    This would make authoring a lot easier, especially when building complicated runbooks. Here's a sample scenario I'm envisioning:
    - Add a child runbook to the authoring canvas and fill all required parameters
    - Right-click on the child runbook and select Copy
    - Right-click on the canvas and select Paste. A copy of the child runbook will be inserted with the same properties/parameters as the original. To avoid duplicate labels, couple of options:

     - The label could be "Copy of original child runbook name".

     - After pasting, the GUI would go
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  3. Export Graphical Runbook to PowerShell

    It would be very useful to be able to export a graphical runbook as formatted PowerShell code (.ps1 file). This would make it easier to migrate these run books to a format that can be run on prem without having to completely recreate the runbook/script.

    4 votes
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  4. NuGet Package for Graphical Runbook SDK (Orchestrator.GraphRunbook.Model.dll)

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  5. Align Graphics

    It would be nice if you could graphically clean up your runbook, by either having a grid or graphically aligning activities in the canvas.

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  6. Remove serialization depth limit for unknown output types in graphical workbooks

    It is sometimes necessary to access member objects and nested properties of activity output. When the output type is not known, serialization / JSONification occurs with a depth of 1. This obliterates member objects, lists, arrays, hashtables etc.

    Please could unknown output types be treated as objects so that their members survive the serialization process?

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  7. Improve Tab Completion/Intellisense in the Runbook Editor

    Intellisense does not seem to work correctly for me in the editor. I either get "No suggestion" in the intellisense window, or I get a cmdlet name suggestion when I should get a parameter name.

    Thanks!

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  8. Creating a Business process platform provisioning IAAS

    The Idea is to define a workflow or process platform which will help in defining an organization workflow in a form of template(Business process platform for IAAS definitions ). This will help in creating self service very easy.

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    0 comments  ·  Graphical authoring  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  Beth Cooper responded

    Thanks for the feedback! Can you provide a bit more detail here? Are you looking to visualize the process or just to have a template runbook example for IaaS provisioning?

  9. update parameter in graphical runbook when subrunbook is updated

    update parameter/code in graphical runbook when subrunbook is updated. Now when you update a subrunbook which is used in a graphical runbook, there is no update of code / parameters

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    0 comments  ·  Graphical authoring  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    triaged  ·  Adminazurecxpuservoice (Product Manager, Microsoft Azure) responded

    Thanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote & comment on. This allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature backlog and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.

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