How to get vertical data in New-UDCard

[Mentat]

Hey everyone,

I’m writing a dashboard that will query a server for information. I have the info set in an object, but I’m having troubles displaying this information in a vertical, line-by-line, Format List type view. With this being a single object, I do not want to use a table; else it will be a single row with multiple columns and that looks weird. I’m trying to use New-UDCard to display the data vertically, line-by-line. I’d like to have it look good with white space to line up values, such as…

Server Name:  <servername>
OS Name:      <OSname>
Total RAM:    <totalRAM>
etc.

I’ve tried piping the object to format list, then out-string. This works, but the output on the card does not respect the white spacing and the values are not aligned.

$outString = $object | fl | out-string
New-UDCard -Title “Hardware & OS Info” -Text $outString

I’ve tried creating a here string, with all the proper spacing the way I want it, but I get the same results; where New-UDCard does not respect the white space and the values are not aligned.

I’ve tried using HTML as well, both as -Content and as -Text. As -Content I get a nice looking key (as bold) and the value, but there are no line breaks; it just jams them up in a single horizontal line. When I use -Text I simply get the text, or if I use -Text as a here string I get “UniversalDashboard.Models.RawHtml”.

New-UDCard -Title "Hardware & OS Info" -Content {
    New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Server Name</b>: " + $OS.PSComputerName + "</ br>")
    New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>OS Name</b>: " + $OS.Caption + "</ br>")
    New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>SP Version</b>: " + $OS.ServicePackMajorVersion + "</ br>")
    }

How can I get this data to display vertically (line-by-line), and have the values line up to the right?

Thanks,

[psDevUK]

hello @Mentat I think you need to have a butchers at this old post:-

Anyway to keep spaces and line breaks in UD?

After much troubleshooting I was able to figure it out. It simply started working when I changed each echo statement to one of these: New-UDParagraph -Text "Connecting to vSphere $vc" I also noticed doing this it doesn’t write the live output what the script is doing, will only output everything when it’s all done. I guess that’s fine, would be cooler if it was live. Any tricks to get the live output? If not I’m having a hard time figuring out progress bars in UD, I’ll type another post for t…

as it is related…as for the alignment of the text, you will most likely have to achieve this via CSS and either set it as a theme or use udhelmet module to set the CSS on this particular part of your page

[Mentat]

Apologies for the late response, life and work got busy! Unfortunately I do not know CSS, and only a little HTML. However, I am tenacious and I kept digging and testing to figure it out. That old article you sent did help.

I found that New-UDParagraph will take New-UDHtml, where it will respect line breaks with <br>

and you can add additional white spaces using   This works both with New-UDPaper and New-UDCard.

Once I have my data loaded into variables, I can do the following…

>     $card_Hardware = New-UDCard -Title "Hardware & OS Info" -Content {
> 
>             New-UDParagraph -Content {
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Server Name:</b>&nbsp; $($OS.PSComputerName.ToUpper())<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>OS Name:</b>&nbsp; $($OS.Caption)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>OS Architecture:</b>&nbsp; $($OS.OSArchitecture)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>SP Version:</b>&nbsp; $($OS.ServicePackMajorVersion)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Manufacturer:</b>&nbsp; $($BIOS.Manufacturer)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Model:</b>&nbsp; $($CompSystem.Model)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>SerialNumber:</b>&nbsp; $($BIOS.SerialNumber)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Processors:</b>&nbsp; $($procCores.NumberOfCores.Count)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Cores:</b>&nbsp; $(($procCores.NumberOfCores)[0])<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Total Cores:</b>&nbsp; $($totalCores)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>Total RAM (GB):</b>&nbsp; $($totalRAM.TotalPhysicalRAM)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>BIOS Name:</b>&nbsp; $($BIOS.Name)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>BIOS Version:</b>&nbsp; $($BIOS.Version)<br>")
> 
>                 New-UDHtml -Markup ("<b>SMBIOS BIOS Version:</b>&nbsp; $($BIOS.SMBIOSBIOSVersion)")
> 
>                     }
> 
>                 }# $card_Hardware

Thanks for the assist!
Rob Walden