Powershell Universal One-Line Start and Self-Executing Dashboards

JustinGrote · July 17, 2020, 8:31pm

Thought this might be of interest to people here:

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https://gist.github.com/JustinGrote/b1653aa0acc5959f68e6aab7f82bece6

BootstrapPowershellUniversal.ps1

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.SYNOPSIS
Bootstraps the Powershell Universal Dashboard with per-folder configurations on a random port
.DESCRIPTION
Saves a copy of Universal Dashboard to the LocalAppData/UniversalDashboard folder and starts it for the current folder.
This is useful for rapid testing, or integrating into scripts for easy deployment
.EXAMPLE
Start-UD -DashboardVersion 1.2.9
Bootstraps version 1.2.9 of the dashboard specifically
.EXAMPLE

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_README.md

# Powershell Universal Dashboard Bootstrap
This script will get you up and running quickly with Universal Dashboard, and create per-folder data instances so you
can rapidly prototype different dashboards

## Quick Start
1. Open an empty folder or a folder with [dashboard .ps1 files](https://docs.ironmansoftware.com/dashboard/components).
1. Run `iex (iwr -useb git.io/BPU)`
1. That's it! Dashboard will autostart and open in your browser
*Note: If you are on Powershell 6+ you can omit the -useb*

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