Help Logging Script Result | PowerShell | Page 1

austere maple Mar 22, 2025, 2:35 AM

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Hello, I hope one of you may be able to help me record the status of some of the functions.

So I essentially have the function test do something like add a user, depending on the result ie exception or nothing then the script updates the value of $Test_result under the $result object.

However when running $print_results the output is just the array and empty strings.

Should I just do $result.Test_Result = “success” to update it?

Function print_results{
Write-Host $result

}

function Test{

Try{
Some code
$Script:Test_Result = “Success”
}
Catch{
Some code
$Script:Test_Result = “Failure”

}

$result = [PSCustomObject]@{‘Test’ = $Test_Result;}

gusty flicker Mar 22, 2025, 7:04 PM

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The question is a little unclear but I think what you're looking for is for the test function to return back to the primary. I took what you had and did a little scratch refactor to demonstrate both paths. There are other cheeky shortcut ways to get returns back but I prefer to be explicit

austere maple Mar 22, 2025, 7:43 PM

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Thank you very much

fair stump Mar 24, 2025, 1:54 PM

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you can also just out the result with $result on one line. no need for return. It is not required in pwsh, generally speaking and is more used to play with scoping or early changing of scope.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_return?view=powershell-7.5

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