# Var prompt use in awx tower

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-prompt-use-in-awx-tower/27840>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-prompt-use-in-awx-tower/27840 "2018-06-21T05:38:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Rajesh\_Chowdary\_Sami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Rajesh\_Chowdary\_Sami](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rajesh_Chowdary_Sami)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-prompt-use-in-awx-tower/27840/1 "2018-06-21T05:38:13Z")

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Team,

I have wrote a playbook to create a users in server with vars\_prompt, when i execute the playbook with ansible cli it is working fine but the same was not working with awx tower.

what i have to change in playbook to get vars\_prompt

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Nottingham1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Bill\_Nottingham1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bill_Nottingham1)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-prompt-use-in-awx-tower/27840/2 "2018-06-21T15:06:15Z")

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samineni (rajesh.saminei@gmail.com) said:

> I have wrote a playbook to create a users in server with vars\_prompt, when  
> i execute the playbook with ansible cli it is working fine but the same  
> was not working with awx tower.
> 
> what i have to change in playbook to get vars\_prompt

vars\_prompt is not supported in AWX; all playbooks must run  
non-interactively. Use a survey.

Bill

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**Author:** ![Rajesh\_Chowdary\_Sami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Rajesh\_Chowdary\_Sami](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rajesh_Chowdary_Sami)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-prompt-use-in-awx-tower/27840/3 "2018-06-22T07:59:28Z")

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Thanks for the info @Bill.  
and what about local\_action, for me plain Ansible cli successfully executed playbook same not working with AWX.

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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:** [June 27, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-prompt-use-in-awx-tower/27840/4 "2018-06-27T18:24:14Z")

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You need to provide more information… how does it not work?

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**Author:** ![Michael\_T\_Wiley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Michael\_T\_Wiley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_T_Wiley)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-prompt-use-in-awx-tower/27840/5 "2018-07-11T16:17:01Z")

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The best way we’ve come up to work around this is:

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