I'm trying to understand how to setup my script so that single quotes will wrap around my variable. I have a list of 1500 customers I need to repeat my script for, so my thought as to do a foreach loop.
$customerlist = Invoke-Sqlcmd -Query "SELECT [CustomerNo] FROM [TABLE]" -ServerInstance "SERVER\INSTANCE"
#Loop through
foreach ($customer in $customerlist)
{
$inputParams = #{
"CustomerNo" = "'"+$customer+"'";
}
....Do rest of script
}
I need the $customer variable in my $inputparams to show with the string value in single quotes, e.g. '01233456' instead of just 0123456. I've tried several different iterations of "'"+$customer+"'" but cannot seem to get the correct syntax. Could someone help me out?
Invoke-Sqlcmd returns [System.Data.DataRow] type objects with the field name(s) and value(s) of your query result as its properties (basically a table). To select the value in the CustomerNo, you must specify the value by name:
# Expand the CustomerNo property to strings
foreach ($customer in $customerlist.CustomerNo) { }
# Or, later in the script:
$inputParams = #{
CustomerNo = "'$($customer.CustomerNo)'"
}
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Below is a snip of my powershell code where my response or my variable($witrevisions) is of type array. I am looking to bind this in a html tag which i have defined in the power shell. As I am very new to coding stuff , I am looking the ways how can I bind array to html tag in best possible way
...continuing my line of code
$response4s = (Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uriAccount -Method get -Headers $AzureDevOpsAuthenicationHeader).values
$wits = $response4s | where({$_.fields.'System.WorkItemType' -eq 'Task'}) # Only retrieve Tasks
$witrevisions = #()
foreach($wit in $response4s){
$customObject = new-object PSObject -property #{
"Title" = $wit.fields.'System.Title'
"AssignedTo" = $wit.fields.'System.AssignedTo'
}
$witrevisions += $customObject
}
$witrevisions | Select-Object `
Title,
AssignedTo
}
and this the sample response i am getting in $witrevisions which i have exported in text file. its a table with two column one having emails and other having a title name.i have tried to show by giving it a table view for better understanding
Assigned To Title
xyz#outlook.com testingpro
drdr#outlook.com resttesting
and here is the html tag where I trying to bind the $witrevisions.
$DOWNLOAD_PAGE_BODY_CONTENT = "<!DOCTYPE html>
`n<html>
`n<head>
`n <title>Validation</title>
`n</head>
`n<body>
`n
`n<p>Please click the link to download the release.</p>
`n<p></p>
`n<p></p>
`n<p>$witrevisions</p>
`n</body>
`n</html>
`n"
Can someone please tell me how should I do this??
Here is an example of some code that would take your array and emit a table, with an explanation to help you tweak to your specific needs:
"<table><body>$($witrevisions|% {"<tr><td>$($_.Title)</td><td>$($_.AssignedTo)</td></tr>"} )</body></table>"
The double quotes are important because they allow string interpolation (it will replace variables with this value, versus being read a plain text. E.g. '[' + $test + ']' => "[$test]"
If you need to do more complex logic in string interpolation, you can use $(...), the ellipses being regular code.
You can iterate through an array by piping to the ForEach-Object, or it's alias %. All the code in the braces will be executed for each item in the array. The current items is represented by $_.
We're then back to string interpolation and using $(...), which is needed to access the members of the current item.
Note: There are several other ways to accomplish (functionally) the same thing. E.g. foreach(...){} vs |%{...}, so feel free to use a different technique if you are more comfortable with doing something a different way.
I am trying to figure out how to populate an unknown number of variables based on user input (writing a script that obtains certificates from a CA, and sometimes these certificates contain more than one name (SANs) and it is impossible to know how many so this needs to be dynamic).
I know I start with setting up params like this:
[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
[string[]]$SANs
)
And then I need to somehow take those values and assign them to $san1, $san2, $san3 and so on.
Being new to programming, I am not even sure what to call this. Would you use a foreach loop to somehow populate these variables?
ForEach ($SAN in $SANs) {
what do I do here?
}
The end result is a need to populate a string with these variables like dns=$san1&dns=$san2&dns=$san3 etc...
Functions and scripts can take parameters. The parameter block in your example looked like...
function foo {
Param([string[]]$SANs)
}
That parameter, $SANs, is an array of strings. A single string would look like this...
$stuff = 'barf'
An array of strings looks like this...
$stuff = #('barf', 'toot', 'ruff', 'meow')
So far so good? If you need to get each of the things in the array, you'd use a loop...
foreach ($thing in $stuff) { write-output $thing }
...for example...
$san_declaration
foreach ($thing in $stuff) {
if ($san_declaration.length -eq 0) {
$san_declaration = "dns=${thing}"
} else {
$san_declaration += "&dns=${thing}"
}
}
Now, if you (not that you asked) happen to be calling Get-Certificate, just remember the SANs parameter is a string array. In that case, you'd just pass in the string array instead of creating the string like you were doing.
Get-Certificate -DnsName $stuff
Looking on the net I came up with this 2 functions to request Sharepoint using this 3 DLL with powershell :
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.dll
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll
This function is used to get all items from a list
Function Get-ListItems([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext]$Context, [String]$ListTitle) {
$list = $Context.Web.Lists.GetByTitle($listTitle)
$qry = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.CamlQuery]::CreateAllItemsQuery()
$items = $list.GetItems($qry)
$Context.Load($items)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()
return $items
}
And this one to work the list :
Function getChangeListsFromSharepoint(){
$context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($Url)
$items = Get-ListItems -Context $context -ListTitle $listName
foreach($item in $items)
{
/** Working HERE **/
}
$context.Dispose()
}
Now when I'm displaying all item content using Write-Host $item.Fields I've got something like this :
[Title,"blabla"]
...
[SpecialField,Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FieldLookupValue[]]
[OtherField,Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FieldLookupValue]
I'm trying to get the value of SpecialField and OtherField. To do so I'm using $item["SpecialField"].LookupValue. And I've got no problem. But when I'm doing it on OtherField the value is empty. If I try to use $item["OtherField"].LookupID the value is not empty and I've got an ID. How can I get the value behind this ID ? What's the difference between FieldLookupValue[] and FieldLookupValue ?
FieldLookupValue[] is a multi-value lookup column.
It has property Allow multiple values set to true and contains an array of items.
So, $item["OtherField"].LookupValue will not work here, you need to iterate it over as below:
#multi-value lookup
$mvLookup = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FieldLookupValue[]] $item["OtherField"]
$mvLookup |% { "Lookup Value: $($_.LookupId):$($_.LookupValue)" }
which results in values as below:
FieldLookupValue is a single value lookup column. It has the Allow multiple values set to false and contains a single item. So, $item["SpecialField"].LookupValue will work here
So the solution was easy : my user didn't had the rights to explore the (field)list because it was from a (sharepoint)list on wich he didn't had any rights. What is strange is that on the website the value was visible but it's not when using powershell.
I have a string that looks something like this:
$string = "property1.property2.property3"
And I have an object, we'll call $object. If I try to do $object.$string it doesn't interpret it that I want property3 of property2 of property1 of $object, it thinks I want $object."property1.property2.property3".
Obviously, using split('.') is where I need to be looking, but I don't know how to do it if I have an unknown amount of properties. I can't statically do:
$split = $string.split('.')
$object.$split[0].$split[1].$split[2]
That doesn't work because I don't know how many properties are going to be in the string. So how do I stitch it together off of n amounts of properties in the string?
A simple cheater way to do this would be to use Invoke-Expression. It will build the string and execute it in the same way as if you typed it yourself.
$string = "property1.property2.property3"
Invoke-Expression "`$object.$string"
You need to escape the first $ since we don't want that expanded at the same time as $string. Typical warning: Beware of malicious code execution when using Invoke-Expression since it can do anything you want it to.
In order to avoid this you would have to build a recursive function that would take the current position in the object and pass it the next breadcrumb.
Function Get-NestedObject{
param(
# The object we are going to return a propery from
$object,
# The property we are going to return
$property,
# The root object we are starting from.
$rootObject
)
# If the object passed is null then it means we are on the first pass so
# return the $property of the $rootObject.
if($object){
return $object.$property
} else {
return $rootObject.$property
}
}
# The property breadcrumbs
$string = '"Directory Mappings"."SSRS Reports"'
# sp
$delimetedString = $String.Split(".")
$nestedObject = $null
Foreach($breadCrumb in $delimetedString){
$nestedObject = Get-NestedObject $nestedObject $breadcrumb $settings
}
$nestedObject
There are some obvious places where that function could be hardened and documented better but that should give you an idea of what you could do.
What's the use case here? You can split the string as you've described. This will create an array, and you can count the number of elements in the array so that n is known.
$string = "property1.property2.property3"
$split = $string.split('.')
foreach($i in 0..($split.Count -1)){
Write-Host "Element $i is equal to $($split[$i])"
$myString += $split[$i]
}
I am looking up data and then want to add that to some kind of list which I can reference, for example if my data looked like this:
Name - John
Last Name - Doe
Age - 55
I would want to store that in a list and be able to do foreach $member in $myList and be able to print $member.Name
Hope that makes sense, not sure what the best way to do this is, would it be creating an object? or using a hashtable?
You can use a PowerShell Hashtable for this:
$NameObject= #{
'Name'='John'
'LastName'='Doe'
'Age'='55'
}
You can do this inside of a loop to add your data like so, to create a PowerShell Object.
$NameObjectCollection = foreach($Object in $MyData)
{
#Add Data to Object
[PSCustomObject] $NameObject= #{
'Name'=$Object.Property1
'LastName'=$Object.Property2
'Age'=$Object.Property3
}
#Output object
$NameObject
}
#Now you can loop over this data
foreach($NameObject in $NameObjectCollection)
{
#Access the properties of the NameObject`
$NameObject.Name
$NameObject.LastName
$NameObject.Age
}