HTML Forms?

[m4admin]

Would be nice that pswritehtml get some form methods to create easy html pages with form validation.

Up to now I don’t find any powershell modules for this.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

And what would you do with forms? There's no back-end to apply this? Your best bet is UniversalDashboard

[m4admin]

There are some nice backends with powershell like pode. Unfortunately pode.web is in alpha status and had many bugs.

UniversalDashboard is not open source and if you want Kerberos auth you have to pay.

Pode with pswritehtml is a really good combo to create nice dashboards. I have some good examples with it and dynamic dashboards with sql datastore.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Right, I have once tried to use Pode, so I am not sure what you can really do with it.

I would need to see some code to understand how one could utilize it, as at the moment I have no clue how to connect 1 and the other. Adding forms, or telling datatables to get data from SQL is one thing, but the other is how to really use it.

I started building a C# version of PSWriteHTML:

• https://github.com/EvotecIT/HtmlForgeX

Which I guess would be more useful, but it's not as complete.

[m4admin]

I would use it to create forms to perform administrative tasks.

• start/end processes
• read event viewer
• combine with the excellent diagrams from pswritehtml

some basic code to integrate:

`

Start-PodeServer {

Add-PodeRoute -Method Get -Path '/pswritehtml' -Authentication 'IISAuth' -ScriptBlock {

$name = $WebEvent.Query['name']


$html = New-HTML -TitleText 'My title' -Online {
	New-HTMLSection -HeaderText "Hello $name" -CanCollapse {
		New-HTMLPanel {
			New-HTMLChart {
				New-ChartLegend -LegendPosition bottom -HorizontalAlign right -Color Red, Blue, Yellow -DisableOnItemHoverHighlightDataSeries -DisableOnItemClickToggleDataSeries
				New-ChartAxisY -LabelMaxWidth 200 -LabelAlign left -Show -LabelFontColor Red, Blue, Green -TitleText 'This is title for y Axis' -TitleColor Red
				New-ChartBarOptions -Distributed
				New-ChartBar -Name 'Test very long' -Value 1
				New-ChartBar -Name 'Test1' -Value 20
				New-ChartBar -Name 'Test2 and even longer title' -Value 30
			} -Title 'Testing Title' -TitleAlignment center -SubTitle 'Because SubTitles are better' -SubTitleAlignment center -SubTitleFontSize 30 -TitleColor Gold
		}
	}
} -Online


Write-PodehtmlResponse -Value $html

}

}

`

but I can understand if you don't want to use forms. With pode and pswritehtml together, the possibilities would be endless in my opinion.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

There3 are plenty of available options:

• https://freefrontend.com/css-forms/
• https://freefrontend.com/jquery-forms/

To try and, based on that, create something of my own. I guess I'm just not sure how to bind it to pode properly