Powershell for Dynamic Folders Incorporating Properties

Questions Royal TS (for Windows)
1

Hi,

I am using the powershell example on the support site to try to create Dynamic Folders for WebConnections. I have no issue creating the base object from a CSV, but I’m getting stuck at adding other properties.

From the examples for Dynamic Folders I’ve modified it to create a webconnection, but trying to add in other properties does not work. For example in the code below, it imports and runs with no errors, but IgnoreCertificateErrors = True does not do anything. Similar if using UseDedicatedEngine = True also does not check that check box.

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
$computers = Import-Csv "$CustomProperty.CSVPath$"
$connections = @()

ForEach ($computer in $computers) {
    $name = $computer.Name
    $computerName = $computer.ComputerName
    $username = $computer.Username
    $password = $computer.Password

    $connection = New-Object pscustomobject -Property @{
        "Type" = "WEBConnection";
        "Name" = $name;
        "ComputerName" = "HTTPS://" + $computerName + "/xui";
        "IgnoreCertificateErrors" = "True";
    }
    $connections += $connection
}
@{
    Objects = $connections
} |
ConvertTo-Json -Depth 100 |
Write-Host

If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Many Thanks!

2

Sorry Figured out my own issue. In order to add in “Properties” you need to include a properties HASH table.

So my code above looks like this:

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

$computers = Import-Csv "$CustomProperty.CSVPath$"

$connections = @()

ForEach ($computer in $computers) {
    $name = $computer.Name
    $computerName = $computer.ComputerName

    $connection = New-Object pscustomobject -Property @{
        "Type" = "WebConnection";
        "Name" = $name;
        "ComputerName" = "HTTPS://" + $computerName;
        "CredentialName" = "BARRIE-ROOT";
        "Properties" = @{ "UseDedicatedEngine" = "True"	}	
    }

    $connections += $connection
}

@{
    Objects = $connections
} |
ConvertTo-Json -Depth 100 |
Write-Host

Note the "Properties" = @{} section in order to add in the extra properties.

Thanks

James

3

Hi,

please check out our updated docs here:

https://www.royalapplications.com/go/kb-all-royaljson

In the documentation PDF you can find a chapter:

Advanced scenarios

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Stefan