Table differences between v2 and v3

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Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 2.3.1

I am doing some work in converting my v2 dashboards to v3 dashboards. In the v2 dashboards, I would create a hashtable with a name/value combo and then display it in a table. I really like displaying it like this (as opposed to using something like UDTypography) as I have a column with the “name” and a consistent spacing to the column with the “value”.

An example of my code is this:

New-UDTable -Id "PMDate" -Title "Project Time Frames" -Headers @(" ", " ") -Content {
					$tableDate = [ordered]@{
						'Proposed Date' = $PMInfo.PMProposedDate
						'Received Proposal from vendor' = $PMInfo.PMReceivedProposalDate
						'Accepted Proposal' = $PMInfo.PMAcceptedProposalDate
						'Project Completed' = $PMInfo.PMCompletedDate
						'Project Fiscal Year' = $PMInfo.FiscalYear
						'Project Quarter' = $PMInfo.Quarter
					}
					$TableDate.GetEnumerator() | Out-UDTableData -Property @("Name", "Value")

					
				} #END UDTable ContactInfo

What might be the best way to replicate something like this in v3 dashboards? While I could do it as a new table, I can’t use the existing hashtable. Ultimately, I want a similar layout (as I actually have used this a lot in my various dashboards), but also am willing to put in the work to use the best display method in v3.

Any ideas for me on this?

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You should be able to do this.

					$tableDate = [ordered]@{
						'Proposed Date' = $PMInfo.PMProposedDate
						'Received Proposal from vendor' = $PMInfo.PMReceivedProposalDate
						'Accepted Proposal' = $PMInfo.PMAcceptedProposalDate
						'Project Completed' = $PMInfo.PMCompletedDate
						'Project Fiscal Year' = $PMInfo.FiscalYear
						'Project Quarter' = $PMInfo.Quarter
					}
					$Data = $TableDate.GetEnumerator()
New-UDTable -Id "PMDate" -Title "Project Time Frames" -Data $Data -Columns @(
    New-UDTableColumn -Property Name -Title ""
    New-UDTableColumn -Property Value -Title ""
)

We also still support loading it dynamically, which is what is happening in the v2 table.

3

Hmm, if I can get that to work, that would be great, but this is what I get with it:

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4

I’ll also add that some of my values are null, so I don’t know if this will cause a problem.

5

Try defining your variables as a string

.ToString()

I found that if my values were null, they wouldn’t render in the table unless they were defined as a string.

6

Thanks. I’ll try that, although I do see I have the same output even if there is a value for everything, as well.

7

The enumerator is kind of weird and Idk why I have to do this but this works.

New-UDDashboard -Title "Hello, World!" -Content {
	$tableDate = [ordered]@{
						'Proposed Date' = 'test'
						'Received Proposal from vendor' = '$PMInfo.PMReceivedProposalDate'
						'Accepted Proposal' = '$PMInfo.PMAcceptedProposalDate'
						'Project Completed' = '$PMInfo.PMCompletedDate'
						'Project Fiscal Year' = '$PMInfo.FiscalYear'
						'Project Quarter' = '$PMInfo.Quarter'
					}
					 $Data = ,@($TableDate.GetEnumerator())
New-UDTable -Id "PMDate" -Title "Project Time Frames" -Data $Data[0] -Columns @(
    New-UDTableColumn -Property Name -Title ""
    New-UDTableColumn -Property Value -Title ""
)
}

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8

Thanks so much! Yeah, it is really weird how that works, but it definitely fixed the issue.