Best method for adding a gui to an existing script.

[Tuxhedoh]

So I'm digging into Powershell Studio and I have an existing script that requires quite a few parameters. I'd like to build a gui around it and build an executable, however I'm not really sure how best to go about adding a gui to an existing script. Has this been documented elsewhere? Is there a tutorial I'm missing that covers this topic?

Product, version and build: Using Studio 2015 Version 4.2.83
32 or 64 bit version of product: 64bit
Operating system: Windows 8.1 64bit

[davidc]

I moved this topic to the PowerShell GUI forums so other can chime in.

This really depends on what you are converting to the GUI and what functionality you wish to surface.

I recommend look at the help links in this topic:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6451

Particularly these articles:

http://www.sapien.com/blog/2012/06/04/u ... istrators/

http://www.sapien.com/blog/2012/06/11/s ... e-dialogs/

David

[Tuxhedoh]

The script as called currently must be run from powershell as an admin, and accepts the following parameters:
Servertype - Remote or Production
Computername - Accepting any input
Logfile location - Accepts input
DBServer - DB1, db2, db3, or db4

I can run this on the cli by running - myscript.ps1 -servertype remote -computername Mycomputer -logfile c:\temp\logfile.txt -dbserver db1

I would like to create a gui to provide options for those parameters, I'm looking for details around the best way to build the gui around my existing script... and not so much which controls to use. https://www.sapien.com/blog/2012/06/11/ ... e-dialogs/ looks like it's going to get there, but is more high level.... and it looks to be the last in that series of posts.

[dan.potter]

Not knowing what your script actually does I really can't give an informed opinion other than keep ps1's and forms separate. You're only asking for a headaches if you do.

Generally I use notepad for ps1's as they're typically one-off management critical priority one decisions I make forms for other non-ps people to use my scripts.

[jvierra]

What is it you have in mind for selecting the values of the arguments? You need to design the form first. Calling a PS1 file is trivial once you know how the form will navigate.

There is no way that an y of us can tell you how to design that. If you ask specific questions we will try to answer them. Start designing your form and go from there.