# Is there an index of common playbook directives? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 16, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-an-index-of-common-playbook-directives/20592 "2016-02-16T17:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brad\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@Brad\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brad_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-an-index-of-common-playbook-directives/20592/1 "2016-02-16T17:53:37Z")
I’m looking for something like the module index pages, but with coverage of the shared directives that can be included in any play, e.g. name, sudo/become, when, register (bonus points for something that details all the properties of the object that register returns), etc. I see these scattered about in their respective sections of the docs, but sometimes the descriptions there don’t seem exhaustive, and who knows what directives I’ve missed? Is there another reference I should be looking at that has it all in one place? Thanks! –Brad ---
**Author:** ![Sergey\_Anuchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Sergey\_Anuchin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sergey_Anuchin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-an-index-of-common-playbook-directives/20592/2 "2016-02-17T17:11:16Z")
This summary([http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~jw35/docs/ansible/ansible-summary.html](http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~jw35/docs/ansible/ansible-summary.html)) is very useful despite being a little bit outdated. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-an-index-of-common-playbook-directives/20592/3 "2016-02-18T16:01:48Z")
on my ‘wishlist’ is getting all this ‘autodocumented’, much like modules do right now.