Application Capabilities
- Categories : Group multiple forms under categories
- Role based access : Limit forms based on roles (users and groups)
- Advanced authentication : Local authentication, Ldap and AzureAD authentication
- Job History & Log : See the history of your jobs, abort running and relaunch
- Environment variables : Customizable with environment variables
- Credential manager : Securily store, get and pass credentials to playbooks
- Repository integration : Sync your forms config files, ansible playbooks and other required files with a git repo
- Ansible and AWX : Forms can target a local ansible instance or AWX/Tower
- Swagger API : Has a rest-api and Swagger documentation
- Job History & Log : See the history of your jobs*
- Designer : Although the forms are NOT built using a graphical designer, a YAML based editor/designer with validation is present
- Git integration : Sync your forms config files, ansible playbooks and other required files with a git repo
Form Capabilities
- Categories : Group multiple forms under categories
- Role based access : Limit forms based on roles
- Cascaded dropdowns : Allow references between fields to create responsive, cascaded dropdown boxes
- Database sources : Import data into fields from databases (MySql, MSSql, Postgres, Mongo, Oracle)
- Expression based sources : Import data using serverside expressions (javascript), such as Rest API’s, json-files, yaml-files, … and filter, manipulate and sort them
- Local expressions : Use the power of javascript (local browser sandbox) to calculate, manipulate, generate, …
- Field dependencies : Show/hide fields based on values of other fields
- Visualization : Many nice visualizations, such as icons, images, colors, responsive grid-system, help descriptions, …
- Field validations : Many types of field validations, such min,max,regex,in, …
- Group fields : Group fields together, vertically and horizontally
- Advanced output modelling : Model your form content into objects, the way you want it
- Approval points : Stop the execution of a form for approval
- Multistep forms : Execute multiple playbooks in steps from a single form
- Email notifications : Send email notifications after form execution
Types of Form Fields
- text : A text input field
- textarea : A textarea input field
- datetime : A datetime input field
- html : An HTML field
- file : A file upload field, the file is uploaded prior to the job start and the extravars will contain the uploaded file info.
- number : A number input field
- password : A password masked input field
- checkbox : A checkbox field
- radio : A radio field (multi options)
- enum : A multi-column filterable dropdown box
- expression : A powerfull javascript driven expression field
- table : A table input field (insert, modify, delete)
Used Technologies
- Backend : Nodejs / Express
- Database : MySql
- Frontend : Vue2
- Layout : Bulma / font-awesome
Requirements
Requirements depend on how you plan to install AnsibleForms. See the installation section to learn more.