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Asked: 2026-06-11T02:26:31+00:00

I’ve got a table made out of various fields of work items. This is

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I’ve got a table made out of various fields of work items. This is the table layout:

$table = @{Expression = {$_.Fields['Id'].Value}; Label = "Id"}, 
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['Work Item Type'].Value}; Label = "Work Item Type"}, 
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['Title'].Value}; Label = "Title"}, 
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['State'].Value}; Label = "State"},
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['Substate'].Value}; Label = "Substate"}, 
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['Assigned To'].Value}; Label = "Assigned To"}, 
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['CreatedBy'].Value}; Label = "Developer"},
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['QA Responsible'].Value}; Label = "QA Responsible"},
@{Expression = {$_.Fields['Iteration Path'].Value}; Label = "Iteration Path"}

and from this line of code $workItems | Format-Table $table | Out-String i get a table like this:

         Id Work Item Type  Title          State          Substate       Assigned To    Developer      QA Responsible    Iteration Path
         -- --------------  -----          -----          --------       -----------    ---------      -----------    --------------
      38479 Bug             Title1000000...Resolved       zzzzzzzzzzz... xxxxxxxxxxx... zzzzzzzzzzz... zzzzzzzzzzz     QA\2012 August
      34917 Task            Title2000000...Resolved       zzzzzzzzzzz... xxxxxxxxxxx                                  WebXXX\CCCCCC

But when I try to convert it to HTML I get different values. Like these here:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>HTML TABLE</title>
</head><body>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col/>
</colgroup>
<tr><th>*</th></tr>
<tr><td>305</td></tr>
</table>
</body></html>

I just want to format the table in HTML and send it in an email. Can I get any help on this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Okay, with Shay’s help I figured it out. I’ll post the answer here if anyone encounters similar problems. The fix was just at this line $workItems | Format-Table $table | ConvertTo-Html. It needed to be changed to $workItems | Select-Object $table | ConvertTo-Html.

    Shay you helped me so much times, if you ever happen to be in Sarajevo, I’ll buy you a drink 🙂

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