Powershell header unaffected by scolling possible ?

Question

Hi

I'm looking to have my Powershell scripts have a header that stay's persistent and is unaffected by the output scrolling.

Similar to how we would freeze panes / freeze top row in excel.

I'm wondering how I would go about this.

I'm thinking Powershell studio may have this ability but I'm not sure. Only see forms nothing about scrolling.

Perhaps Visual studio code can do this.

Perhaps it's not possible to do easily ?

Thanks for reading

Answer 1

Would out-gridview accommodate ?

I don't think so.

Sounds like Write-Progress might be what you are looking for.

while ($true) {
    $p = Get-Process
    Write-Progress -Activity “Collecting Processess” -status “We found $($p.count) processes." 
    $p
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
}

Answer 2

One option is Out-Gridview. Here is a script that I put together to gather records from all event logs for a given timeframe and puts them in TOD sequence.

# Name: RecentEvents.ps1
# Desc: Script to read all event logs and put all events within a timeframe into TOD sequence.
#       The intent is to see all events that occurred at a certain time when an error may have occurred.  
#       Life was simpler when we only had 3 eventlogs. 
# Usage: RecentEvents.ps1 NumberOfHours    Ie:  RecentEvents.ps1 24
# Author: Dave (MotoX80)
param($tf = 1 )          # Time frame in hours. 
$hdr = $tf
$tf = $tf * 3600000
$elna = (Get-WinEvent -ListLog * -EA silentlycontinue | where-object { $_.recordcount -gt 1})     # get all event log names that have records in them. 
$AllEvents = @()              # prepare array so we can append to it
foreach ($el in $elna)        # look at each event log
{
    $xml = "<QueryList><Query Id=""0"" Path=""$($el.logname)"">
            <Select Path=""$($el.logname)"">*[System[TimeCreated[timediff(@SystemTime) &lt;= $tf ]]]</Select>
            </Query></QueryList>"       
    $AllEvents += Get-WinEvent -FilterXml $XML -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue  # append the events (if any)
}
$AllEvents | sort-object -Descending -Property TimeCreated  | 
Select-Object -property TimeCreated, ID, Logname,  LevelDisplayName, Message |
Out-GridView -Title "Recent Events ($hdr hours)" 

Answer 3

Thanks for that. I'm looking to have the header contain some info that would dynamically change such as Loop count, detections made, Date/time each loop started.

Would out-gridview accommodate ?