Requesting an Orchestrator workflow with Input parameter "description" from Aria Automation catalog-service API does not forward the input of "description" parameter to the Orchestrator workflow

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• The input of a field "description" is not been forwarded to the Orchestrator workflows when requested via catalog-service API.
• The input is been used correctly when the Deployment is created from Aria Automation web portal.
• When renaming the field to a different name e.g. "input_description" then the input can be retrieved from the Orchestrator workflow

Environment

• Aria Automation 8.18.1
• Aria Orchestrator 8.18.1

Cause

The catalog-service API is configured to map field "reason" as "description", any input in field "description" is ignored.

Resolution

Please rename the field or use field "reason" as alternative.