Request - 3 more pre-defined variables in Dashboards

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We are working on adding logging to our PowerShell Universal instance and believe that it would be quite helpful to have three additional pre-defined variables available in dashboards:

  1. $DashboardName - ex ‘MyTestDashboard’
  2. $DashboardFilePath - ex ‘MyTestDashboard.ps1’
  3. $DashboardBaseUrl - ex ‘/myTestDashboard’

If this could be added that would be very helpful!

Thanks

Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 2.0.3
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Sure thing! I can get those added

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Do you have a timeline / version number these variables will be added?

Also, $Identity would be nice to have available in Dashboards too. Currently it only exists in the API scope.

Thanks!

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These will be available in 2.3.0 which will be released September 14th. We’ve moved to a monthly release for all products on the second Tuesday of the month.

I’ll check on the $Identity variable. I thought that had been added to dashboards but maybe we have a bug there.

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I can’t seem to get the variables $Identity or $UserName working with my PSU Dashboard instance. Currently running a nightly build from 10/12 (2.5.0).

What variables do I have access to in Dashboards? Is it different than the list on Docs?

Also, I’m running my Authorization through OIDC with an Azure App.

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You can use this to look up all variables in your dashboard:

    $Data = Get-Variable | Select Name, Value
    New-UDTable -Data $Data

Also, the docs had the wrong variable (fixed). It should be $User not $UserName. I don’t see $Identity referenced but I’m assuming you’re looking for $ClaimsPrincipal.

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I got $user to work - thanks for the sample code to get variables in a dashboard session. I’m definitely going to save that for later

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Hi.
I’m trying to use $DashboardName in an app in psu 4.0 but no matter what I do it is empty. Any idea what could cause that? It should contain the value of the name setting of the app, right?

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Dashboards was renamed Apps in 4.0

Did you try to check if there was another variable with the data you need?

$Data = Get-Variable | Select Name, Value
New-UDTable -Data $Data

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Thanks. Found the fault. I did my test in the code of the app but not inside the code of a page, seems that variable isn’t set then. Doing the same thing inside the contents of a page works fine.