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• Custom attribute in the model layer properties

  Hey all,.

  Can someone explain the flow of the program "ADF practice: using custom attribute in the model layer properties of". "" Basically, how change custom properties like "customLabel" changed the label attribute. Is there properties specific adf we can refer to properties for the attribute?

  Reference will also be useful.

  Thank you!!

  What exactly you want to know?

  It's pretty clear from what I've read:

  You can set properties that are customized for each attribute in a vo. This is done in the vo attributes dialog box where the default value.

  You can override the default values that is done in the setCustomHints() method. This method is called by the button in the user interface (actionListener = "#{bindings.setCustomHints.execute}" ")

  The inputtext is set to display the properties for the label (label = "#{bindings.") DepartmentName.hints.customLabel}') and uses the custom readOnly property (readonly = "#{bindings.") DepartmentName.hints.readonly}')

  As the inputText component is updated after the button clicked on (via a pertial in the inputText trigger), it shows the a values.

  Timo

• OVD Plugin Custom - attribute of the user LDAP recovery

  Hi all

  I develop a plugin for OVD.

  My goal is to retrieve the value of an attribute (for example, "attribut1") when you call a proxy service, who authenticate with a user of TPM.

  For example, I have the user "user1" in OVD and my Proxy Service is called using the credentials of that user. When this happens, my custom plugin is called (since it is attached to my LDAP adapter) and I need access to 'attribute1' value of ID "User1" and calling a WebService with this value.

  Can you please tell me:

  1. In what method should I apply this (get, postSearchEntry, etc...)
  2. How can I get the value of the attribute of this user

  Thank you very much.

  Hello

  Yes, I booted and I could not recover all the information of the DN. In the end, I did the following:

  try {
    chain.nextBind(creds, dn, password, result);
    } catch (DirectoryException e) {
    throw e;
    }
  
  Vector searchAttributes = new Vector();
  
  DirectoryString ldapUsernameDs = new DirectoryString("myattribute");
  searchAttributes.add(ldapUsernameDs);
  
  ChainVector results = new ChainVector();
  chain.getVSI().get(chain.getRequest(), creds, dn, new Int8((byte) 0), ParseFilter.parse("(objectClass=*)"), new Bool(false), searchAttributes, results);
  
  if (results.size() > 0) {
  
  EntrySet es = (EntrySet) results.get(0);
    Entry entry3 = es.getNext();
  
  Vector ldapUsernameValue = entry3.get(ldapUsernameDs);
  Syntax ldapUsernameSyntax = (Syntax) ldapUsernameValue.get(0);
    ldapUsername = ldapUsernameSyntax.toString();
  }
  

  The code needs some improvement, but the idea is there, and it works. Something wrong with it?

• Custom attribute OAM in the Workflow Manager user

  I need to add a custom attribute (defined in the person object class) to the User Manager workflow. I'm administrator of Master and I could see objectclass and attribute in the current configuration-> tab objectclass.
  But when I try to install 'Attribute Access Control', I don't see a custom attribute in the list.
  can you please how to make available in the workflow custom attribute?
  
  Thank you

  If you use OID, check if the attribute is indexed.

• Reporting to include custom attributes of Vm and organized through multiple vcenters.

  Hello
  We are just moving our production test vfoglight solution & have you come across a bit of a weird one. We had a report / discovers that would list all virtual machines in our virtual Center and displays the custom attributes in a nice - good for the management report, form etc. However, we are moving to a new instance of virtual center & we have a test instance too - all are present in vfoglight, but our report draws only the custom of the original vcentre attributes. I'm not wcf script guru, but I gave it a good look & can't see a way forward - the hero of any script out there who could take a look and help out?
  Moreover, do you think I could put in a request for support for this one & get any joy?

  Hope someone can help - I'll post all the files needed etc.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  Thought of it at the end - on the second vcenter vmware foglight agent did not have the ability to collect custom attributes in the service.config file set to true. After true and restart the collector and the connector, everything was fine.

• Retrieves a custom attribute and store it in a workflow attribute?

  Hello.

  Maybe I'm confused on this subject, but from the looks of it, I can't take the custom attribute that is retrieved using

  com.vmware.library.vc.customattribute.getCustomField)

  and assign it to an attribute of workflow for use later, or even check the value.

  From the looks of the workflow, it records only the value.

  Is it possible to natively in vRO?

  Thank you!

  Anoop

  Are you trying to retrieve the custom attribute using the workflow "toget the attribute custom" (in the folder library/vCenter/Custom attributes )?

  If so, then Yes, this workflow only saves the retrieved attribute and does not return as an output parameter. You have the following options:

  • Write your own workflow to help "get the attribute custom" as a starting point. You can duplicate, then add a new parameter of type string and set it to the value of customAttributeValue.
  • Directly call the com.vmware.library.vc.customattribute.getCustomField () action in your script code and use its return value of string.

• LDAP Sync does not work on custom attributes

  Gurus,
  
  I installed and configured OIM 11 g release 2. During configuration of IOM, I activated ldapsync to OID.
  
  Created a custom attribute in the OID and also on OIM. But when I change this attribute to IOM, this change won't OID and vice versa. There are no errors in the logs.
  
  Please throw some light on this.

  Everything by creating a custom to IOM, attribute entitle you the label, name... At the same time, there will be an option to provide the ldap attribute name. You must provide the name of the attribute that you created in the OID here. Then only ldap sync works on custom attributes. without specifying a ldap attribute name, ldap sync wiill does not work.

  Give it a try and post your results here.

• PowerCLI need to define global attributes on the hosts

  PowerCLI need to define global attributes on the hosts... Please, I beg you. ESXi4.

  The name is easy in the user interface as long as it applies to all hosts in the global inventory, but I want to be able to set or change the value of the attribute on a per host-level or a cluster.

  Thanks for any help!

  I have

  To create global custom attributes that you use

  New-CustomAttribute -Name MyCustomAttribute
  

  To set a global custom attribute for the hosts, you can use

  New-CustomAttribute -Name MyCustomAttribute -TargetType VMHost
  

  If you want to set or change the value of the attribute for a specific host, you can do

   Set-CustomField -Name MyCustomAttribute -Value "MyValue" -Entity (Get-VMHost )
  

  If you want to change the value for all hosts in a cluster, you can do

  Get-Cluster  | Get-VMHost | Set-CustomField -Name MyCustomAttribute -Value "MyValue"
  

  ____________

  Blog: LucD notes

  Twitter: lucd22

• Attributes custom VM * without * the cartridge speed

  I am running v6.7.1 which does not support the older cartridges.  What is the procedure for creating a service for custom attributes that are installed in vCenter?  Blog with the method of carriage speed, it looks like 6.7.1 should already be collecting data.  How one can access this data to include in reports and create services for him?

  I removed the scope of the derivative of the cartridge to avoid performance problems.  You can find rules in the cartridge.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhr2lz6g7gff0dw/velocity-7_2_1.car

  OR...

  You can download just the groovy and script that run from the console/script editor or implement a rule as well.  Just edit the desired custom attribute name for the service for.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqqbvf5855u12ke/createServicesFromCustomAttributes.Groovy

• Change after the addition of custom attribute

  Hello

  I use OIM R2 PS1 and the commissioning of OUD user via the connector.

  Depending on the condition, I added a new custom attribute "HomePhone". However, the value of attribute for this attribute is only pushed for the newly created user. For a user (prior to adding the custom attribute), the attribute values runs not more than on the side of the OUD.

  Is there a planner that I need to run?

  Thank you, John

  Hello

  I'm sure that you have not finished the second part of the extension of connector - "Configurations to achieve synchronization app downstream." However, you mentioned that you don't see a problem with the new user, however if you update the value of the attribute, it does not flow down to OUD, as older users.

  Please go through the link: extend the functionality of the connector

  The steps would be - creating new tasks within the definition of processes, mapping, etc..

  Thank you.

• Unable to get the values of the attributes of the Annotation VM Notes and Custom (product)

  Hi Experts,

  Need help to enter the values of the following custom attribute annotation is my script. No problem collecting other information.

  below is the codes where im having issues. There is no output for the VM Notes and the product.

  @{N = "VM Notes";} E={$_. Summary.Config.Annotation}},

  @{N = ' product'; E = {$key = $_.} AvailableField | where {$_.} Name - eq 'Product'} | Select the key - ExpandProperty

  $_. CustomValue | where {$_.} Key - eq $key} | {{Select - ExpandProperty value}}.

  Below is the script when the above code is integrated.

  $vCenterServerName = "test.com"

  SE connect-VIServer $vCenterServerName - xxx-xxxx password user

  $SMTPServer = "xxxx".

  $ToAddress = "xxxxx".

  $FromAddress = $vCenterServerName + "@xxx.com.

  $Subject = ' report VMPath for all VMs in vcenter - tpe.corp.kazootek.com.

  $date = get-Date-format-M - d - yyyy

  $reportlocation = "C:\test\vcenter-xxx-vmpath-$date.csv".

  $vmFields = ' Name ',' Parent ',' Config.Template ',' Runtime.Host ',' ResourcePool ',' Config.Hardware ',' Summary.Storage ',' Runtime.Powerstate ',' Summary.Config.Annotation '.

  # $report = C:\test\tpe_mate1.csv - UseCulture | %{

  $report = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine-property $vmFields | %{

  $esx = get-view-id $_. Runtime.Host - name of the property, material

  $_ | Select Name,

  @{N = "VM Notes";} E={$_. Summary.Config.Annotation}},

  @{N = ' product'; E = {$key = $_.} AvailableField | where {$_.} Name - eq 'Product'} | Select the key - ExpandProperty

  $_. CustomValue | where {$_.} Key - eq $key} | {{Select - ExpandProperty value}}.

  @{N = 'Template'; E={$_. Config.Template}},

  @{N = 'Center'; E = {}

  $obj = get-view-Id $_. ResourcePool-name of the Parent property

  While ($obj - isnot [VMware.Vim.Datacenter]) {}

  $obj is get-view $obj. Parent - the Parent property name

  }

  $obj. Name

  }},

  @{N = "Cluster"; E = {}

  $obj = get-view-Id $_. ResourcePool-name of the Parent property

  While ($obj - isnot [VMware.Vim.ClusterComputeResource]) {}

  $obj is get-view $obj. Parent - the Parent property name

  }

  $obj. Name

  }},

  @{N = 'Host'; E = {$esx. Name}},

  @{N = "NumCpu"; E={$_. Config.Hardware.NumCpu}},

  @{N = "MemoryGB"; E = {[int]($_.)} Config.Hardware.MemoryMB/1KB)}}.

  @{N = "ProvisionedSpaceGB"; E = {($_.Summary.Storage.Committed+$_.Summary.Storage.Uncommitted)/1 GB)}},

  @{N = "Powerstate"; E={$_. Runtime.PowerState}},

  @{N = "Path"; E = {}

  $current = get-view-Id $_. Parent - the Parent property name

  $path = $_. Name

  {}

  $parent = $current

  if($parent.) Name - only "vm") {$path = $parent. {Name + "\" + $path}

  $current is get-view $current. Parent - the Parent property name

  } While ($current. Parent - no $null)

  [channel]: join ('-',($path.)) Split('\') [0.. ($path). Split('\'). (Count-2)]))

  }},

  @{N = "FolderId"; E={$_. Parent.ToString ()}}.

  @{N = "Manufacturer"; E = {$esx. Hardware.SystemInfo.Vendor}},

  @{N = ' model'; E = {$esx. Hardware.SystemInfo.Model}},

  @{N = "ProcessorType"; E = {$esx. Hardware.CpuPkg [0]. Description}}

  }

  # }

  $report | Export-Csv $reportlocation - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  Write-Host "Report exported to csv file" + $reportlocation

  Send-Mailmessage-to $FromAddress - to $ToAddress - subject $Subject - $reportlocation - SmtpServer $SMTPServer attachments

  Write-Host "report was sent by E-mail to '$ToAddress' to ' $FromAddress

  You must add the $vmFields variable AvailableField and CustomValue

  $vmFields = ' Name ',' Parent ',' Config.Template ',' Runtime.Host ',' ResourcePool ',' Config.Hardware ',' Summary.Storage ',.

  'Runtime.Powerstate ',' Summary.Config.Annotation ',' AvailableField', ' CustomValue.

• Create a custom attribute to model the growth rate of the data store used space

  I would like to see data warehouses are growing fastest of the environment in terms of GB per day or something similar.  Is it possible to use a custom attribute to apply a formula that measures the rate of growth of a store of data over time, which allows me to see what data stores fastest?

  You would look for an average simple mobile for a SM you describe. vC Ops does not simple moving average formulas for SMs at this time.

  Looks like you are looking for a "growth rate", but you really won't get it with the built-in attributes. You might look differently and look at the remaining capacity and the remaining time metric. Also, you could create additional widgets to view graphs of util % over the last 30-90 days to give a better picture of usage in GB, #VMs, etc.

  I also suggest to make a Top - N showing use the lowest of the remaining time metric and the remaining ability... This will give you your data warehouses that are more at risk.

• Someone removed the custom attributes field

  Is it possible that PowerCLI can fire an event if someone removed the field of the custom in vCenter attributes?  I take more precisely on the class in Administration > custom attributes in vSphere client 5.x.  For some reason a field that he had to show VM assignments is missing, and I'll try to find what happened to her.

  Course, use the CustomFieldRemovedEvent.

  You can use the Get-VIEvent or my Get-VIEventPlus cmdlet to retrieve the events.

  BTW use my Event-O-Matic to easily find event names.

  

  Special Edition, it will still generate code to extract the events

• Include the attribute custom report using the disc

  I'm to customize a script provided by Alan Renouf in his PowerGUI Powerpack.  The script I'm customization in the Powerpack is named 'VM disk sizes.

  His screenplay does everything we need from a point of view of output except that we can also include a custom attribute (Custom Field) VM as well as the information of the disk space.  I have included the below custom script, please note that this is a script/PowerGUI PowerPack we customize but was initially written and provided by Alan Renouf and all credit for this original work must be given to Alan.

  I have included our custom below script and have "in bold Red" line in the script that does not work:

  $AllVMs = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine. Where {-not $_.} Config.Template}
  $SortedVMs = $AllVMs | Select *, @{N = "NumDisks"; E={@($_. Guest.Disk.Length)}} | Sort-Object-down NumDisks
  {ForEach ($VM to $SortedVMs)
  $Details = new-object PSObject
  $Details | Add-Member-Name name-value $VM.name - Membertype NoteProperty
  $Details | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty-name CustomFields-value (($VM.)) CustomFields | %{"$($_. Key) = $($_.) (Value)'}) - join ',')
  $DiskNum = 0
  Foreach ($disk in $VM. Guest.Disk) {}
  $Details | Add-Member-name "drive$ ($DiskNum) path"-MemberType NoteProperty-value $Disk.DiskPath
  $Details | Add-Member-Name "Disk$ ($DiskNum) Capacity (MB)"-MemberType NoteProperty-value ([math]: round ($disk.) Capacity / 1 MB))
  $Details | Add-Member-Name "Disk$ ($DiskNum) FreeSpace (MB)"-MemberType NoteProperty-value ([math]: round ($disk.) FreeSpace / 1 MB))
  $DiskNum ++
  } # end foreach nested
  $Details.PSTypeNames.Clear)
  $Details.PSTypeNames.Add ('Virtu-al'.PowerPack.VMGuestDisks) '
  $Details.PSTypeNames.Add ('Virtu-al'.PowerPack.VM) '
  $Details
  } # end foreach

  When you use the Get view as seen on the first line of the script, it appears the CustomField information not available in the generated view.  How to develop the view to include CustomFields/CustomAttributes for each virtual computer in our environment and then report on their subject?

  Please let me know if I did a poor job explaining the scenario and what I'm after here.  Any help is greatly appreciated!

  Hello, jSun311-

  Yes, you are right - there is no such thing as the "CustomFields" property on a managed object VirtualMachine .  You can always get the names and the corresponding values of the custom fields, you just have a little.  For example, you could change the line to:

  ...## make a comma-separated string that holds the custom field key/value pairs, like "cust0 = myValue0,cust1 = myDateInfo"$Details | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name CustomFields -Value (($VM.Value | %{$oCustFieldStrValue = $_; "{0} = {1}" -f ($VM.AvailableField | ?{$_.Key -eq $oCustFieldStrValue.Key}).Name, $oCustFieldStrValue.Value}) -join ",")...
  

  and you should be happy as a clam.

  BTW, this call Get-view on your first line could be optimized a little using the - Filter parameter, like:

  $AllVMs = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Config.Template" = "false"}
  

  Pretty minimal in this case, but can be very useful in other scenarios of Get-View.  And, you may want to retrieve only the properties of the managed VirtualMachine object that you plan to use, so that the memory usage is reduced to the minimum, speed is optimized, etc. (do you this by using the - Get-mode property param).

  Anyway, how does do for you?

• Change the VM with custom attributes defined in a CSV file

  Hi all

  I'm doing something that I think should be simple (but this is the first time I used powercli and am not a good code writer), but I find it hard to tell.

  I created 2 custom attributes (owner and owner of the SSG system) in vCenter for my virtual machines.  I have a list of vm names csv and their associates "owners".  I would use powercli to read the csv file and connect to the VC server and the 'owners' of entry in the appropriate field.

  I borrowed com code from various places on the internet and these forums but I can't seem to make it all work.  I managed at least to read the information in the csv file and is displayed on the screen of my laptop.  What I can't do is get 3 columns in the csv file to be recognized as variables (unless there is some default variables I don't know) I can put in the game-Annotation lines.

  The code I have is:

  # Input range, includes all IBD VM names that are registered.
  $data = import-Csv "C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\vmowners1.csv"-Header ('Hostname', 'Owner', 'SSG owner')
  # $data | Get-Member
  Write-Output $data
  # Loop over all the VMS in vCenter
  ForEach ($row in $data)
  {
  # Create variables for the current virtual and its 'Contact' and 'Description' computer that are custom attribute fields.  Also create a $note string to use Set-VM-Description
  $hostname = get-VM-name $vmname;
  # $contact = $vm | Get-Annotation CustomAttribute - user;
  # $description = $vm | Get-Annotation - CustomAttribute Description;
  # $note = $contact.name + ":'t" + $contact.value + "' not n" + $description.name + ":'t" + $description.value;
  Set Annotation - entity $hostname - CustomAttribute "Business system owner" - value $SSG_owner
  Set Annotation - entity $hostname - CustomAttribute "SSG system owner" - value $system_owner
  # Set - VM - VM $vm - $note Description - confirm: $false;
  }

  The result, I get on my screen is:

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts >.\setvmownership.ps1

  Owner of the company that owns SSG host name

  --------                                              --------------                                       ---------

  ABPPROXY-00-AH

  ACE-01-AH hung Laallmmi hung Laallmmi

  Get - VM: could not validate the argument on the parameter 'name '. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try the AGM of the order

  in.

  To C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:13 char: 29

  + $hostname = get-VM-name < < < < $vmname;

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [Get - VM], ParameterBindingValidationException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetVM

  Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

  C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:17 char: 23

  + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "Business system owner" - value $SSG_owner

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

  Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

  C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:18 char: 23

  + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "SSG system owner" - value $system_owner

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

  Get - VM: could not validate the argument on the parameter 'name '. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try the AGM of the order

  in.

  To C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:13 char: 29

  + $hostname = get-VM-name < < < < $vmname;

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [Get - VM], ParameterBindingValidationException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetVM

  Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

  C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:17 char: 23

  + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "Business system owner" - value $SSG_owner

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

  Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

  C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:18 char: 23

  + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "SSG system owner" - value $system_owner

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

  The CSV file looks like this (but continues for about 500 VMS):

  I go with the option import-csv because that said something that I read in my troubleshooting efforts would empty columns and error I received and that import-csv correctly would intrepret in empty columns.

  hostname, business_owner, system_owner,

  ABPPROXY-00-AH,

  ACE-01-AH, James Laallmmi, James Laallmmi,

  acrodev-00-ah, tflessa, Bruce Hastings,.

  ACT1DDB00AH, Bill Mancini, Mike Bruni,

  ACT1TDB00AH, Bill Mancini, Mike Bruni,

  What should I do to be able to get this script to work? I don't know that it is related to messages "argument is null." that we see in the output.

  Thank you

  Dan

  Hello, dscottimw-

  You were on the right track.  There were a couple of things to change to make it work as you want:

  1. either remove the "-header" part of the Import-Csv line or delete the actual header of the CSV itself - these are elements in conflict (the "-Header" param names of the columns in the CSV and assumes that the CSV file has already no header row)
  2. you need to access the properties of the $row variable in the ForEach loop - not only call the names of the CSV column headers (this is why you may receive errors on things 'null' - whether you use variables that have no value)

  Try this:

  # Input array, includes all VM names from DCI that are registered.$arrVMsInfo = Import-Csv "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\vmowners1.csv"#Write-Output $data
  
  ## loop through all VMs listed in the CSV, setting custom attrib values for eachForEach ($row in $arrVMsInfo) {    ## get the VM for this row    $vmThisOne = Get-VM -Name $row.hostname    Set-Annotation -Entity $vmThisOne -CustomAttribute "Business System Owner" -Value $row.business_owner    Set-Annotation -Entity $vmThisOne -CustomAttribute "SSG System Owner" -Value $row.system_owner} ## end foreach
  

  And, to give it a shot without actually play the game on annotations, to make sure things go as you like, you could add a - WhatIf to each line in Set-Annotation in the ForEach loop.

  Which works better for you?