# Ansible Tower Playbook dropdown in jobtemplate

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-dropdown-in-jobtemplate/27140>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Created:** [March 28, 2018, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-dropdown-in-jobtemplate/27140 "2018-03-28T07:37:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bapi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Bapi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bapi)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-dropdown-in-jobtemplate/27140/1 "2018-03-28T07:37:57Z")

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Hello,

I am using Ansible Tower3. Is it mandatory to have all my playbooks under project directory?

As while creating job template, i am only able to see those playbooks which are available on base project directory under Playbook selection dropdown.

Can someone please shade some lights?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![matburt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/matburt/32/3612_2.png) [@matburt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/matburt)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-dropdown-in-jobtemplate/27140/2 "2018-03-28T13:46:57Z")

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If you need help with Tower, you should _really_ contact your Red Hat support rep.

Having said that, the UI doesn’t allow free-form entry of the playbook field… the api, however, does. The UI will use an index generated by the back-end but unfortunately it’s not an exhaustive list. In the meantime if you have a playbook that wasn’t discovered by indexing then you can enter it manually from the api.

Also it does need to look like a playbook: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/awx/main/utils/ansible.py#L16](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/awx/main/utils/ansible.py#L16)

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**Author:** ![Bapi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Bapi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bapi)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-dropdown-in-jobtemplate/27140/3 "2018-03-31T01:05:33Z")

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Thank you very much!!!