Question

I have this code below and I would like to display the output in a table like fashion

$spSite = Get-SPSite "http://sp2010" 
$spWeb = $spSite.OpenWeb()

$spList = $spWeb.Lists["ReportList"]
$items = $spList.Items
foreach($item in $items)
{
    Write-Host  $item["ID"] $item["Name"] $item["Department"] $item["Telephone"]

}

like this:

ID      Name            Department        Telephone
---    --------         -----------       ------------

1       Somone          IT                 02554445588

I saw Format-Table, but I cannot seem to get the hang of it.

Some example using the code above will be very much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Hard to even start helping, because current code simply won’t work… ($spListItem is… what? foreach uses $item, can we assume you are using it?). Also: we have very little to no information about type of this items, it looks like some dictionary object… Anyway, I would try:

$items | ForEach-Object {
    # assume $items is array of dictionary objects...
    New-Object PSObject -Property $_
} | Format-Table ID, Name, Department, Telephone

obviously, it may not work, because I made some assumptions that can be just wrong.. 😉