Variables outside of dashboard

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Hi - newbie here, so this may sound like a dumb question. I am using UD to create an input form for use in other tools. I have my form setup and it seems to work fine.

My dumb question. How do I get the variables out of the dashboard to use in regular powershell operations?

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Hi @richj
Welcome to the world of UD forums!

Depends, as to why? You can do pretty much everything from UD.

Even tho:
Try the following:
$variable | convertto-json | out-file c:\temp\outvar.json

and to import said variable to a console session or whatever:
$variable = get-content C:\temp\outvar.json | convertfrom-json

Any particular use cases?

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Thanks, BoSen29

I’m using the dashboard as a data entry form to fill out details for a terraform & DSC deployment. I’m going to want to launch terraform after I know I have answers (another issue to figure out) I’m going to need to ultimately send the info to a database. I was thinking about creating an object and storing the variable answers there and exporting the entire object.

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Hey @richj after reading your explanation you could directly write to the database from UD. I have a SQL dashboard on my github page showing this.

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Thanks @psDevUK,

Could you point me to the correct project for this on your github page?

Thanks again

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Was outside on the iphone…I wanted to post the link, so here it is https://github.com/psDevUK/psUniversalDashboard this is an older dashboard, but this is linked to AD via a dedicated security group…then I use the $User variable to output the content, and make sure it’s in a format to go in the DB. Hope this helps.