Microsoft Azure retrieve affinity group properties

Nintex external platform is required for this feature. For details, see Enable Nintex external platform features.

Retrieves the properties of an affinity group that is associated with a subscription in Microsoft Azure.

Note: Microsoft Azure actions are supported for use with Azure Classic Portal only (manage.windowsazure.com).

Action settings

Following are the fields and options visible in the configuration settings dialog box for this action.

Field Description
Certificate

Specify the certificate file (.pfx) to be used for authenticating the service request. This certificate must be associated with the Microsoft Azure subscription.

  • Existing SharePoint Content: Enter the URL of the certificate within the current site.
  • Content: This is currently not supported.
  • Current item: Upload the current certificate that the workflow is running on. This option is only available on document libraries.
Certificate password

Specify the password for the certificate.
Subscription ID

Specify the subscription ID associated with the certificate.
Name

Specify the name of the affinity group to retrieve the properties.

Output

Store output for this action using the following selections.

  • Label: Specify a text variable to store the label of the affinity group.
  • Description: Specify a text variable to store the description of the affinity group.
  • Location: Specify a text variable to store the data center’s location of the affinity group.
  • Cloud service URL: Specify a collection variable to store the cloud service URL of the affinity group. No result if the affinity group is not associated with any cloud service.
  • Cloud service name: Specify a collection variable to store the cloud service name of the affinity group. No result if the affinity group is not associated with any cloud service.
  • Storage account URL: Specify a collection variable to store the storage account URL of the affinity group. No result if the affinity group is not associated with any storage account.
  • Storage account name: Specify a collection variable to store the storage account name of the affinity group. No result if the affinity group is not associated with any storage account.
  • Capability: Specify a collection variable to store the capability of the affinity group.
  • Results in XML: Specify a text variable to store the properties of the retrieved affinity group in XML format.

Depending on action requirements, you may be able to add and remove output variables.

To add an output variable

  1. Select an option from the Select more drop-down list.
  2. Click Add to display a drop-down list for the selected option.
  3. Select a previously defined workflow variable from the drop-down list.

To remove an output variable

  • Click Delete ().

    Note: Some output variables cannot be deleted. For example, the output variable URL for the action Bing news search cannot be deleted.