Send notifications through powershell scripts

marcos.santos

Hello, everyone!
How are they?

Do you have any recommendations for giving feedback to the user when executing scripts?

I tested some features like building a notification with .NET library features, and or BurntToast. But I was unsuccessful.

BurntToast even worked during the tests but only when sent individually, when included in a larger script it does not notify.

If you have suggestions or recommendations I would appreciate it.

COOLNETAU

try this - if you make this standalone script. it will ask for a Message - if you need to add line breaks? "\n" will do it.

It is not pretty, but works when I need it to

Function New-WPFDialog {

    <#

    .SYNOPSIS

    This neat little function is based on the one from Brian Posey's Article on Powershell GUIs


    .DESCRIPTION

      I re-factored a bit to return the resulting XaML Reader and controls as a single, named collection.


    .PARAMETER XamlData

     XamlData - A string containing valid XaML data


    .EXAMPLE


      $MyForm = New-WPFDialog -XamlData $XaMLData

      $MyForm.Exit.Add_Click({...})

      $null = $MyForm.UI.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync{$MyForm.UI.ShowDialog()}.Wait()


    .NOTES

    # Example usage with line breaks

        $MessageText = "Line 1`nLine 2`nLine 3"

        New-PopUpWindow -MessageText $MessageText


    .LINK

      http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/netgeneral/building-powershell-gui-part2.html


    .INPUTS

     XamlData - A string containing valid XaML data


    .OUTPUTS

     a collection of WPF GUI objects.

    #>


    Param(

        [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = 'XaML Data defining a GUI', Position = 1)]

        [string]$XamlData

    )


    # Add WPF and Windows Forms assemblies

    try {

        Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationCore, PresentationFramework, WindowsBase, system.windows.forms

    } catch {

        Throw 'Failed to load Windows Presentation Framework assemblies.'

    }


    # Create an XML Object with the XaML data in it

    [xml]$xmlWPF = $XamlData


    # Create the XAML reader using a new XML node reader, UI is the only hard-coded object name here

    Set-Variable -Name XaMLReader -Value @{ 'UI' = ([Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load((new-object -TypeName System.Xml.XmlNodeReader -ArgumentList $xmlWPF))) }


    # Create hooks to each named object in the XAML reader

    $Elements = $xmlWPF.SelectNodes('//*[@Name]')

    ForEach ($Element in $Elements) {

        $VarName = $Element.Name

        $VarValue = $XaMLReader.UI.FindName($Element.Name)

        $XaMLReader.Add($VarName, $VarValue)

    }


    return $XaMLReader

}


Function New-PopUpWindow {

    param(

        [string]$MessageText = "Default Message"

    )


    # This is the XaML that defines the GUI.

    $WPFXaml = @'

<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

        Title="Popup" Background="#FF0066CC" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" ResizeMode="NoResize" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight" WindowStyle="None" Padding="20" Margin="0" Topmost="True">

    <Grid>

        <Button Name="OKButton" Content="OK" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,30,20" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="75" Background="#FF0066CC" BorderBrush="White" Foreground="White" Padding="8,4"/>

        <TextBlock Name="Message" Margin="100,60,100,80" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="_CONTENT_" FontSize="36"/>

    </Grid>

</Window>

'@


    # Replace the placeholder text with the actual message

    $WPFXaml = $WPFXaml -replace "_CONTENT_", $MessageText


    # Build Dialog

    $WPFGui = New-WPFDialog -XamlData $WPFXaml

    $WPFGui.Message.Text = $MessageText

    $WPFGui.OKButton.Add_Click({ $WPFGui.UI.Close() })

    $null = $WPFGui.UI.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync{ $WPFGui.UI.ShowDialog() }.Wait()

}

$MessageText = "{[MessageContent]}"

New-PopUpWindow -MessageText $MessageText

marcos.santos

My two problems occurred because I ran the script directly on the system instead of current user, but it worked perfectly, thanks
COOLNETAU.

Here is my code that I commented, just for documentation purposes:

function Notify {

param (

[string]$icon,

[string]$title,

[string]$message

)

New-BurntToastNotification -AppLogo $icon -Text $title, $message

}

$ic, $tt, $ms = "icon.ico", "Title", "My message"

Notify -icon $ic -title $tt -message $ms

COOLNETAU

actually new line should be `n i think not \n