I want to know Best Way to Handle User Input in PowerShell Universal Dashboard?

(anonymous user)

Published a year ago

Hey everyone,

I am working on a dashboard using PowerShell Universal & want advice on improving how I handle user input. I have set up a basic form with a couple of text fields and a date picker—pretty standard stuff. The idea is for users to input a username and a date range, then the dashboard runs a script and shows some data in a table.

It is functional, but not very smooth. Sometimes the table does not update unless the page is refreshed & I feel such as the overall experience could be better. I have heard people mention using Set-UDElement or other dynamic components to make it more responsive—any tips or examples would be awesome.

Also, I am looking into building similar dashboards for internal teams that also use other tools such as Jira so I have been going through some jira online training just to understand how workflows translate. Hoping to bring some of those ideas here. Also i have check this The Best Ways to Use PowerShell Universal to Manage Huge Dashboards still want to know more.

Thank you…

All Comments (1)

Published a year ago

If you are looking for dynamic updates, then take a look at
New-UDDynamic and Sync-UDElemet

Here is a basic example:

New-UDApp -Content { 

    New-UDCard -Title "Update" -Content {

        New-UDButton -Text "Update Table" -OnClick {
            Sync-UDElement 'tableData'
        }

    }

    New-UDDynamic -Id "tableData" -Content {

        $Data = @(
            @{ Application = 'Web API';       Status = 'Running'; CPU = 12.5; MemoryMB = 204;  LastChecked = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-1) }
            @{ Application = 'SQL Database';  Status = 'Warning'; CPU = 45.2; MemoryMB = 3072; LastChecked = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-5) }
            @{ Application = 'Redis Cache';   Status = 'Running'; CPU = 5.3;  MemoryMB = 512;  LastChecked = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-3) }
            @{ Application = 'Worker Service';Status = 'Stopped'; CPU = 0.0;  MemoryMB = 0;    LastChecked = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-2) }
        )

        New-UDTable -Title "My Table Data" -Data $Data

    } -AutoRefresh

}

Notice how the date changes when you click on Update table. You could also add -Autorefresh with an interval on New-UDDynamic, if you want it to update automatically.