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When working in PowerShell, and especially when scripting, you might want to give the user a choice of actions. For example, you might develop a configuration script that another admin or technician will run. Perhaps one of the steps is to configure networking depending on their location so you want to give the person running the script a menu of choices. Here's one way you might accomplish this, without resorting to graphical tools or WinForms.<\/p>\n

In PowerShell, we use the Read-Host cmdlet to get input from a user.<\/p>\n


\nPS S:\\> $r=Read-Host \"Enter a name\"
\nEnter a name: Jeff
\nPS S:\\> $r
\nJeff
\nPS S:\\>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

The Read-Host prompt is a string, but it can be a complex string like this.<\/p>\n


\nPS S:\\> $menu=@\"
\n>> 1 Show info about a computer
\n>> 2 Show info about someones mailbox
\n>> 3 Restarts the print spooler
\n>> Q Quit
\n>>
\n>> Select a task by number or Q to quit
\n>> \"@
\n>>
\nPS S:\\> $r=Read-Host $menu
\n1 Show info about a computer
\n2 Show info about someones mailbox
\n3 Restarts the print spooler
\nQ Quit
\nSelect a task by number or Q to quit: 3
\nPS S:\\> $r
\n3
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

You could then use a Switch statement to do something based on the value of $r. For today's Friday Fun, I've wrapped all of this up in a demo script that includes a relatively simple menu building function.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Function Show-Menu {<\/p>\n

Param(
\n[Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$True,HelpMessage=\"Enter your menu text\")]
\n[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
\n[string]$Menu,
\n[Parameter(Position=1)]
\n[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
\n[string]$Title=\"Menu\",
\n[switch]$ClearScreen
\n)<\/p>\n

if ($ClearScreen) {Clear-Host}<\/p>\n

#build the menu prompt
\n$menuPrompt=$title
\n#add a return
\n$menuprompt+=\"`n\"
\n#add an underline
\n$menuprompt+=\"-\"*$title.Length
\n$menuprompt+=\"`n\"
\n#add the menu
\n$menuPrompt+=$menu<\/p>\n

Read-Host -Prompt $menuprompt<\/p>\n

} #end function<\/p>\n

#define a menu here string
\n$menu=@\"
\n1 Show info about a computer
\n2 Show info about someones mailbox
\n3 Restarts the print spooler
\nQ Quit<\/p>\n

Select a task by number or Q to quit
\n\"@<\/p>\n

#Keep looping and running the menu until the user selects Q (or q).
\nDo {
\n #use a Switch construct to take action depending on what menu choice
\n #is selected.
\n Switch (Show-Menu $menu \"My Help Desk Tasks\" -clear) {
\n \"1\" {Write-Host \"run get info code\" -ForegroundColor Yellow
\n sleep -seconds 2
\n }
\n \"2\" {Write-Host \"run show mailbox code\" -ForegroundColor Green
\n sleep -seconds 5
\n }
\n \"3\" {Write-Host \"restart spooler\" -ForegroundColor Magenta
\n sleep -seconds 2
\n }
\n \"Q\" {Write-Host \"Goodbye\" -ForegroundColor Cyan
\n Return
\n }
\n Default {Write-Warning \"Invalid Choice. Try again.\"
\n sleep -milliseconds 750}
\n } #switch
\n} While ($True)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

The Show-Menu function takes parameters for the menu body, a title and switch indicating if you want to clear the screen before displaying the menu. Within the function, I create a new string to use as the prompt for Read-Host. I've split it up into distinct steps so you can better understand what I'm doing. The main part of the script is the Do loop which uses a Switch construct to run the Show-Menu function.<\/p>\n


\n Switch (Show-Menu $menu \"My Help Desk Tasks\" -clear) {
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

The script will keep running until the user presses Q (or q). Here's what you would see.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The essence of this technique is to create a multi-line prompt with a here string and then a Switch statement based on the Read-Host input. Just don't forget to validate the input. Or you can use my Show-Menu function.<\/p>\n

Download my Demo-ConsoleMenu<\/a> script and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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