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So the first trick to learning vCO is learning about what it is your really looking at... Think of it as an interactive flowchart, each object within the chart does something.

I'm assuming in this document that you already have Orchestrator installed, configured and working. If I can do it, you can too

First off, let's get logged into vCO! 

From there, we're going to create a workflow. A workflow (like I stated above), is an interactive step-by-step operation. Workflows can have dependencies, operators, logic and a host of other different variables.

On the left-hand side, click on workflows...

So, we'll want to name the workflow as well...

And then click new workflow. Now, you'll notice that you can't do anything with it yet...

Right-click the workflow that you just created and click edit.

Now click on the schema tab at the top, this is where your going to build out the workflow. Click on Action & Workflow on the left-hand side, drag a workflow element into the schema page.

Once you drag the element in, the following box opens up. I'm going to search for the word clone, in which I'm going to select Clone, Linux with single NIC.

Now, click on your workflow element. This then click on visual binding. This is where your going to specify what parameters and attributes your going to set up. In vCO, a parameter is a variable that the user running the workflow will specify. An attribute, is a variable that your going to build into the workflow.

As per the image above, the only thing we want the end user to select is the hostname, and the IP address of the VM. I'm also using the clientname variable as the display name variable as you can see where client name on the left connects to both client name and name on the right. This is done by dragging the black arrow from client name on the left to name on the right.

When dragging attributes from the input to the attribute box, a selection box will pop-up. The easiest way is to click OK on each one without making any modifications.

Now click on general, and go through and fill out the value section of each attribute.

Then click on Inputs and verify that everything is correct, and modify any descriptions if needed.

Once complete, click on schema again, click on the connector icon, connect the start circle to the workflow element. Then click validate. This validation step will create your endpoint for you and also point out any mistakes that you made. 

Once you pass your validation step, execute the workflow!