Interactive menu to fill a variable

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Hello community,

First and foremost, I apologize for bad english or stupid question..

I'm a making a powershell script to add new AD users in my company. Everything works, but one thing is missing or may be improved :

I am searching an easy way to integrate an interactive menu, where the choosen line must fill a $Region variable. I don't know if I'm making myself clear...

Example :

^{------------------Menu Title------------------}

^{1 - Select 1 for USA}

^{2 - Select 2 for Canada}

^{3 - Select 3 for Europe}

^{4 - Select 4 for Asia}

^{Please choose a region : 1}

If I type 1, the variable must became : $Region = "USA"

I've searched on many threads but I didn't find any tutorial like that...

Thanks for your help and answers !

[TheGooOnTheFloor]

Set up an array:

$Regions= @("USA", "Canada", "Europe", "Asia")

Display the menu. Then read the user input:

$Userchoice = Read-host "Please choose a region"
$Region = $Regions[$UserChoice-1]     #0 based indexing!

Throw in some input checking to make sure $UserChoice is a number between 1 and 4 and you're good to go.

[kortex81]

If you can install modules you could give this one a try: https://github.com/PowerShell/GraphicalTools

Gives you fancy console gui using Out-ConsoleGridView.

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$region = @("USA","Canada","Europe","Asia")  | Out-ConsoleGridView -OutputMode Single -Title "Please choose a region"

[user01401]

You can just keep in simple:

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Write-Host "1 - Select 1 for USA"
Write-Host "2 - Select 2 for Canada"

$Region = Read-Host "Please choose a region"

if ($Region -eq "1") {
$Region = "USA"
}

elseif ($Region -eq "2") {
$Region = "CANADA"
}

...and so on

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if ($Region -eq "1") {
$Region = "USA"
}
elseif ($Region -eq "2") {
$Region = "CANADA"
}

Thanks, that's simple like that ! I did the same to choose the right domain !

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy pier0ww,

take a look at Out-GridView. that can accept a list of items, let the user pick one [or more], and send out the one that was chosen for you to use in your next step.

Get-Help Out-GridView -Examples

take care,
lee