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I’m trying to load a dashboard in IIS and have other pages available like the test dashboard (poshud) . But after setting the main dashboard.ps1 file to the below code the IIS server fails to start.

$HomePage = .(Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages\home.ps1")
$Onboarding = .(Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages\onboarding.ps1")

Start-UDDashboard -Wait -Dashboard(
    New-UDDashboard -Title "New Dashboard" -Pages @(
        $Home,
        $Onboarding
    )          
)

I tried it with the -Content{} switch on the Start-UDDashboard command as well and the IIS server still failed to start. After looking back at the Documentation it seems that the -Wait and -Dashboard switch is required for hosting in IIS. Is it currently possible to have pages when hosting with IIS?

2

$Home is a Powershell “automatic variable”, see all the variables with:

get-help about_Automatic_Variables

your code should work like this:

$HomePage = .(Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages\home.ps1")
$Onboarding = .(Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages\onboarding.ps1")

Start-UDDashboard -Wait -Dashboard(
    New-UDDashboard -Title "New Dashboard" -Pages @(
        $HomePage,
        $Onboarding
    )          
)
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3

Ahhh I see, I was a bit tired yesterday this makes sense now looking at it. Thank you for the reply!

4

After trying your code IIS still fails to load. I’m going to keep messing with it and see if I can get it to work.

5

After messing around I was able to get IIS to load. With this code:

$Pages = @()
$Pages += . (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages\home.ps1")

Get-ChildItem (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages") -Exclude "home.ps1" | ForEach-Object {
    $Pages += . $_.FullName
}

Start-UDDashboard -Wait -Dashboard(
    New-UDDashboard -Title "Dashboard Title" -Pages $Pages -FontIconStyle FontAwesome           
)

But I still do not see the pop-out icon (Three White Bars) for page navigation next to the title. Is that part of the New-UDPageHeader function that is built in the poshud example dashboard.ps1 file?

Update: I figured it out… I had one of my pages -Icon switches set to font awesome icon that wasn’t being recognized. Is there a list of the Icons available within the cmdlet anywhere??

6

Dot sourcing your pages will work. (Notice the space after the dot)

$HomePage = . (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages\home.ps1")
$Onboarding= . (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "pages\onboarding.ps1")

Start-UDDashboard -Wait -Dashboard(
    New-UDDashboard -Title "New Dashboard" -Pages @($Home, $Onboarding)      
)
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