Working with service templates
Viewing service template information
The Service Templates tab enables users to do the following:
• View and filter service templates with tags.
• Create custom tags or tag groups using
Organize Tags
.
• Using the
Card View
or
Table View
, see service template details, status, and actions.
• Create and edit templates.
• Manage service templates by toggling between views of all versions or the latest version.
Procedure
1.
Click the
Service Templates
tab to view all released templates.
2.
Choose a view:
• Click
Card View
to open a graphical representation of templates. In this view, you can click a
template to open the template preview, which includes detailed information and access to controls.
Card View
enables you to visualize your templates as discrete objects, and allows you to see the
description in each template.
• Click
Table View
to open a table with a list of templates. This view includes some fields that are not
available in the
Card View
. You can add and delete fields from this view with the
Column
Settings
.
Service Templates tab
Tag Search pane
The Tag Search pane enables users to filter service templates that have been tagged.
Tags are organized into groups, such as Applications, Hypervisors, and Storage Services. Each group
has one or more tags.
To use tags, click a tag name to see only service templates tagged with that name in the service
templates pane. Click the tag again to expose all tags in that group and all service templates that were
filtered out. You can only use one Version tag at a time.
You can click Organize Tags to create your own tag groups and then add tags to the groups. You can also
add tags to the provided groups.
Controls
The following actions are available in the Service Templates tab to manage service templates.
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