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series: vRA8
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date: "2021-04-02T08:34:30Z"
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lastmod: "2022-03-23"
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thumbnail: HXrAMJrH.png
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I'll also drop in a "Foreach Element" item, which will run a linked workflow once for each item in an input array (`originalNames (Array/string)` in this case). I haven't actually created that nested workflow yet so I'm going to skip selecting that for now.
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![Nested workflow placeholder](UIafeShcv.png)
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The final step of this workflow will be to replace the existing contents of `resourceNames (Array/string)` with the new name. I'll do that with another scriptable task element, named `Apply new names`, which takes `inputProperties (Properties)` and `newNames (Array/string)` as inputs and returns `resourceNames (Array/string)` as a workflow output back to vRA. vRA will see that `resourceNames` has changed and it will update the name of the deployed resource (the VM) accordingly.
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The final step of this workflow will be to replace the existing contents of `resourceNames (Array/string)` with the new name.
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I'll do that with another scriptable task element, named `Apply new names`, which takes `inputProperties (Properties)` and `newNames (Array/string)` as inputs. It will return `resourceNames (Array/string)` as a *workflow output* back to vRA. vRA will see that `resourceNames` has changed and it will update the name of the deployed resource (the VM) accordingly.
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{{% notice info "Binding a workflow output" %}}
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To easily create a new workflow output and bind it to a task's output, click the task's **Add New** option like usual:
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![](/add_new.png)
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Select **Output** at the top of the *New Variable* dialog and the complete the form with the other required details:
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![](/new_output_parameter.png)
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{{% /notice %}}
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![Apply new names task](h_PHeT6af.png)
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And here's the script for that task:
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