Attempting to import .csv cell contents into a PowerShell Form Combo/Drop Down Box which works when I hard code in each variable number ($DropDownBox1.Text, $DropDownBox2.Text etc.) but was looking to make it a bit smarter and loop through each instance and import appropriately.
Is it possible to modify the left hand assignment to get it to increment accordingly?
$i=0
$x=1
Foreach($User in $ISDept)
{
$DropDownBox[$x].Text = Import-Csv -Path $File | Select-object -Index ($i) |% {$_.Status}
$i++
$x++
}
Using the above code I get the error:
"Unable to index into an object of type System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox."
Thanks in advance.
I presume you have some code that creates all dropdown boxes, with names as you described. In that case, you need to use dynamic variable and Get-Variable command. Try this
$i=0
$x=1
Foreach($User in $ISDept)
{
$DropDownBox = Get-Variable -Name ('DropDownBox' + ([string]$x)) | Select -Expand Value
$DropDownBox.Text = Import-Csv -Path $File | Select-object -Index ($i) |% {$_.Status}
$i++
$x++
}
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I am trying to use below code with date range as Where-Object filter but that is slowing down my output speed as well as unable to export to csv.
$Prids = get-content -Path C:\Temp\sqltest.txt
foreach ($prid in $prids){
$filterDate = [datetime]::Today.AddDays(-22)
Get-CdPac2000Problems -PId $Prid | Where-Object {$_.ClosedDate.Date -ge $filterDate} |ft PID,ClosedDate,ClosedByELID,ResponsibleGroup,ReferredDate -autosize
}
How can I change Where-Object to parameter that looks something like -closedate $variable like I did with -PID? The biggest struggle for me is to creating a datetime variable.
First of, you should move the $filterDateout of the loop, second you should NEVER use Format-Table, and ABSOLUTELY NEVER in a loop.
Try this:
$filterDate = [datetime]::Today.AddDays(-22)
$Prids = get-content -Path C:\Temp\sqltest.txt
$Result = foreach ($prid in $prids){
Get-CdPac2000Problems -PId $Prid | Where-Object {(Get-Date $_.ClosedDate.Date) -ge $filterDate}
}
$Result | Format-Table PID,ClosedDate,ClosedByELID,ResponsibleGroup,ReferredDate -autosize
One of the most beautyfull things in PowerShell is, that you can interfere directly with all objects. All methods and properties are preserved, when passing the objects to a variable or to the next command in a pipe. Format-Table converts objects to a table - something human readable and something stripped from methods and life.
In my Powershellscript I read some data from a csv-File in an Arraylist.
In the second step I eliminate every line without the specific char: (.
At the third step I want to eliminate every double entries.
Example for my list:
Klein, Jürgen (Klein01); salesmanagement national
Klein, Jürgen (Klein01); salesmanagement national
Meyer, Gerlinde (Meyer02); accounting
Testuser
Admin1
Müller, Kai (Muell04); support international
I use the following script:
$Arrayusername = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$NewArraylistuser = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$Arrayusername = Get-Content -Path "C:\Temp\User\Userlist.csv"
for ($i=0; $i -le $Arrayusername.length; $i++)
{
if ($Arrayusername[$i] -like "*(*")
{
$NewArraylistuser.Add($Arrayusername_ads[$i])
}
$Array_sorted = $NewArraylistuser | sort
$Array_sorted | Get-Unique
}
But the variable $Array_sorted still has double entries.
I don´t find the mistake.
Some Ideas how you could change your code:
Use the existing Command to import .csv files with the Delimiter ;.
Filter the output with Where-Object to only include Names with (.
Select only unique objects with Select-Object, or if you want to sort the Object, use the Sort-Object with the same paramets.
Something like this should work:
Import-csv -Delimiter ';' -Header "Name","Position" -Path "C:\Temp\User\Userlist.csv" | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "*(*"} | Sort-Object -Unique -Property Name,Position
While running the below script I am getting an error:
"Method invocation failed because [System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject] doesn't contain a method named 'IndexOf'".
Please help me to find out a solution to avoid the above error while running the below script.
Code:
$serverlist_csv1 = Import-Csv -Path $file1
$serverlist_temp1 = $serverlist_csv1
$exclude_serverlist_csv = Import-Csv -Path $file2
foreach ($server in $exclude_serverlist_csv) {
$servers1 = ($serverlist_csv1.'SourceHostName' | Select-Object -ExcludeProperty 'SourceHostName')
if ($servers1 -contains $server.'Exclude Server') {
$server_object1 = ($serverlist_csv1 | Where-Object {$_.SourceHostName -eq $server.'Exclude Server'})
$serverindex1 = $serverlist_csv1.IndexOf($server_object1)
$dataResizable1 = {$serverlist_csv1}.Invoke()
$dataResizable1.RemoveAt($serverindex1)
$serverlist_csv1 = $dataResizable1
}
}
You are getting that error because you used select-object on the pipeline invocation of $serverlist_csv1, which creates a layer over the object effectively creating a new object a pscustomobject and that makes it lose the indexOf() method.
if you avoid this step and instead try for instance to exclude that on the import of the csv or modify the member to nothing if that property isn't necessary to you. The point is like people before me said that does not seem like the better way to solve whatever problem this is.
Build a list of the server names from the second file:
$exclude = Import-Csv $file2 | Select-Object -Expand 'Exclude Server'
Then filter the first file for rows whose SourceHostName column isn't one of those names and write the result back to a file:
Import-Csv $file1 | Where-Object {
$exclude -notcontains $_.SourceHostName
} | Export-Csv 'C:\output.csv' -NoType
I am trying to export a list of documents modified files after a set date, including its owners from a recursive scan using Get-ChildItem.
For some reason I cannot get it to port out to a file/csv:
$Location2 = "\\fs01\DATAIT"
$loc2 ="melb"
cd $Location2
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.lastwritetime -gt [datetime]"2017/05/01" } | foreach { Write-Host $_.Name "," $_.lastwritetime "," ((get-ACL).owner) } > c:\output\filelisting-$loc2.txt
Could any of the PowerShell gurus on here shed some light please?
The problem with your code is that you are using Write-Host which explicitly sends output to the console (which you then can't redirect elsewhere). The quick fix is as follows:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.lastwritetime -gt [datetime]"2017/05/01" } | foreach { "$($_.Name),$($_.lastwritetime),$((get-ACL).owner)" } > filelisting-$loc2.txt
This outputs a string to the standard output (the equivalent of using Write-Output). I've made it a single string which includes the variables that you wanted to access by using the subexpression operator $() within a double quoted string. This operator is necessary to access the properties of objects or execute other cmdlets/complex code (basically anything more than a simple $variable) within such a string.
You could improve the code further by creating an object result, which would then allow you to leverage other cmdlets in the pipeline like Export-CSV. I suggest this:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.lastwritetime -gt [datetime]"2017/05/01" } | ForEach-Object {
$Properties = [Ordered]#{
Name = $_.Name
LastWriteTime = $_.LastWriteTime
Owner = (Get-ACL).Owner
}
New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $Properties
} | Export-CSV $Loc2.csv
This creates a hashtable #{} of the properties you wanted and then uses that hashtable to create a PowerShell Object with New-Object. This Object is then returned to standard output, which goes into the pipeline so when the ForEach-Object loop concludes all the objects are sent in to Export-CSV which then outputs them correctly as a CSV (as it takes object input).
As an aside, here is an interesting read from the creator of PowerShell on why Write-Host is considered harmful.
[Ordered] requires PowerShell 3 or above. If you're using PowerShell 2, remove it. It just keeps the order of the properties within the object in the order they were defined.
I am trying to seperate values in an array so i can pass them to another function.
Am using the select-Object function within a for loop to go through each line and separate the timestamp and value fields.
However, it doesn't matter what i do the below code only displays the first select-object variable for each line. The second select-object command doesn't seem to work as my output is a blank line for each of the 6 rows.
Any ideas on how to get both values
$ReportData = $SystemStats.get_performance_graph_csv_statistics( (,$Query) )
### Allocate a new encoder and turn the byte array into a string
$ASCII = New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
$csvdata = $ASCII.GetString($ReportData[0].statistic_data)
$csv2 = convertFrom-CSV $csvdata
$newarray = $csv2 | Where-Object {$_.utilization -ne "0.0000000000e+00" -and $_.utilization -ne "nan" }
for ( $n = 0; $n -lt $newarray.Length; $n++)
{
$nTime = $newarray[$n]
$nUtil = $newarray[$n]
$util = $nUtil | select-object Utilization
$util
$tstamp = $nTime | select-object timestamp
$tstamp
}
Let me slightly modify the processing code, if it will help.
$csv2 |
Where-Object {$_.utilization -ne "0.0000000000e+00" -and $_.utilization -ne "nan" } |
Select-Object Utilization,TimeStamp
It will produce somewhat different output, but that should be better for working with.
The result are objects with properties Utilization and TimeStamp. You can pass them to the another function as you mention.
Generally it is better to use pipes instead of for loops. You don't need to care about indexes and it works with arrays as well as with scalar values.
If my updated code won't work: is the TimeStamp property really filled with any value?