Question

I’m currently rewriting a script that is in VB into a Powershell script.

What the script does is search our Active Directory for a user based on the script-users input.

Function PromptForName{
    $nameInput = "*"
    $nameInput += Read-Host ("Please enter a full or partial name.")
    $nameInput += "*"
    return $nameInput
}

Function FindUsers{
    param ([string]$n)
    $usersArray = Get-ADUser -f {DisplayName -like $n} | Select-Object Name
    return $usersArray
}

This code will print out the correct list of names. What I then want to do is allow the user to choose one of those names, and have more information about that person. I’m stuck at allowing the script-user to select one of those names.

How can I prompt for another input; where the box will display a numbered list of all the names that FindUsers gave, and then return a number based on which user they chose? I’m completely lost.

This is currently how I am trying to do it, although I’m pretty sure it’s completely wrong.

Function PrintUsers{
    param $a
    [int]$i, $j
    [string]$userList
    $j = 1
    foreach($object in $array){
        $userList += ($j + $array[$i])
        $j++
    }
    return $userList
} 

Function SelectUser{
    param $list
    $user = Read-Host ($list)
}

EDIT:

I have updated my functions to the following:

Function FindUsers{
    param ([string]$n)
    $usersArray = @(Get-ADUser -f {DisplayName -like $n} | Select-Object Name| Format-List)
    return $usersArray
}

Function PrintUsers{
    param ([String[]]$array)
    $i
    for($i = 1; $i -lt $usersArray.length; $i++){
        Write-Host "$i. $($usersArray[$i-1].Name)"
    }
}

The output after FindUsers is like this:
Name : xxxxx yyyyy
Name : xxxxx zzzzz
etc.

So the return of $usersArray is printing all that.
I don’t want any printing until the PrintUsers function, and I want it to be in a numbered list type format like this:
1. xxxx yyyy
2. xxxx zzzz
etc.

I’m having the most difficult time figuring this out.

Answer 1

# get all users
$usersArray = @(Get-ADUser -f {DisplayName -like $n} )

# create menu
for($i=1; $i -le $usersArray.count; $i++){
    Write-Host "$i. $($usersArray[$i-1].Name)"
}

# prompt for user number
$user = Read-Host Enter the user number to get more info

# display full info for selected user
$usersArray[$user-1] | Format-List *