Correct method to get built-in object icon resources?
What is the correct way to get and display an icon for a built-in object (e.g. for HostSystem, Datastore, etc.)? By tracing the standard UI, I can retrieve the "primaryIconId" property from either my...
View ArticleAdding custom properties from external source to existing vSphere Managed...
Hi,I would like to display additional properties to existing vSphere managed entities (e.g. Hostsystem) in the H5/webclient. The additional properties are coming from another source (through an...
View Article[VSPHERE HTML5 WEB CLIENT] Can't connect the first time with vSphere API...
I am not sure if this is a bug but I always got the error 'com.sun.xml.internal.ws.fault.ServerSOAPFaultException: Client received SOAP Fault from server: The session is not authenticated. Please see...
View ArticleSummary header view html5
Hello, I'm developing a new html 5 web client plugin (sdk 6.5), I want to add a summary for our custom object. The summary should have header and two or three portlets.In the old flex sdk we added...
View ArticleDouble scrollbars on the configure/monitor tabs with 6.5 SDK samples
Using the "chassis-b" sample from the 6.5 SDK ("vsphere-client-sdk-6.5.0-4602587.zip"), the "Configure" and "Monitor" tab extensions have double scrollbars - see attached screenshot. This is easily...
View ArticleHow to make Summary portlet bigger
I'm trying to use a portlet on VM summary view and the content of my portlet is bigger but the portlet does not resize and instead a vertical scroll bar is displayed in the portlet which scrolls the...
View ArticleExtension based on version
In plugin.xml, is there any straightforward way to apply a metadata filter for the vCenter version? May be any Global property that can be used like Global.Licenses?OR this has to be done via a custom...
View ArticleHTML client view not refreshed after performing action
When viewing one of my custom objects (e.g. on its Summary view), the client does not receive a refresh event after an action is performed (using the "Actions" drop-down menu). Is this a known issue,...
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The action extension display imcompletely for plug-in running on the...
There is something wrong with HTML plug-ins running on the flex-base vSphere Client(version 6.0) on IE(version 11) , the problem shows that the action extension of datacenter cannot display...
View ArticleUnable to satisfy dependency "org.springframework.http" on vCenter 5.5.1
[2017-05-25 23:25:45.806] [ERROR] TCP Connection(9)-127.0.0.1 org.eclipse.virgo.medic.eventlog.default DE0002E Installation of bundle 'com.company.hi' version '5.0.0' failed....
View ArticleIs there a way to show/hide global views?
We would like to be able to able to show/hide a partially implemented global view in the Flex client that is implemented in HTML. We want to keep the full featured Flex client but be able to get...
View ArticleExtension point to create primary tabs for custom objects?
What is the correct extension point to create primary tabs for custom objects? I haven't been able to find this in the documentation.The built-in objects, such as Hosts, have the default tabs (Summary,...
View ArticleIssue with Global refresh event(DataRefreshInvocationEvent) when using for...
Hi, We have a couple of global view extensions (vise.global.views) with global refresh event(DataRefreshInvocationEvent) extended.Method onGlobalRefreshRequest will be called even if the view is not...
View ArticleDebugging deployment failures?
Is there any documentation on how to debug deployment failures? Also, are there any plans to provide a better installation method in the future? Requiring end users to install Java on a workstation...
View ArticleLong processing results in Data Adapter timeout
In our plugin we have encountered a situation where when we have a large configuration of our objects it takes a long time to process resulting in hitting a time out situation. I couldn't find...
View ArticlevSphere HTML Client SDK Version and Plug-Ins Compatibility
Hi all,There's a blog post which answers one of the most common questions: “Which SDK version should I use?”.Here is a link to the entire blog post:...
View ArticlePersistent data storage options for Flex+HTML UIs and large/HA environments?
The SDK documentation section on storing persistent data for a plugin only covers a single method, which is to store it in a local file that is specific to the VCenter instance and UI variant...
View Articlevsphere-wssdk-provider sample code reports error when starts server
Hi, When I run the vsphere-wssdk-provider sample code, it reports the following...
View ArticleHow to correctly use VimPortType for vCenter server VMODL API communication
Hello. I'm working on a vSphere client plugin using the HTML SDK and I checked the vsphere-wssdk-service project included in the SDK as one of the examples where VimService and VimPortType classes are...
View ArticleVsphere Web Client Modal Dialog open for Plugin Issue in Chrome and IE
Webclient Modal Problem.Problem : When i open up a modal in the webclient plugin, and then go back to the plugin default landing page, the Javascript file loses the reference of "WEB_PLATFORM", there...
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