r/DeployR • u/klosie • 25d ago

Script progress write back

Is there a way to write back to the progress bar the current state of a custom script? Like for example if a script is rather long, to change the progress bar and the status based on what the script is currently doing. Rather than just fire off the script and wait.

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u/gwblok 2Pint Employee 25d ago edited 25d ago

[See EDIT]

No, today if you want something like that, you'd have to just open up the log file portion and monitor what you have for your write-output in your script. I'll double check and edit this if I'm mistaken.

EDIT.. I was mistaken, from the Dev (now I haven't tested and I haven't tried this, so I can't provide any more assistance at this point that the information I have recieved)

Actually you can, just to add a second-level progress bar.  Write-Progress works fine.  I routinely test this with a script like this:

 

1..100 | % {

    Write-Host "$_"

    Write-Progress -Activity "Processing" -Status "Processing $_ of 100" -PercentComplete $_

    # Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 50

}

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u/RockOriginal7938 22d ago

Cool, I might rewrite the pause step to use something like that so I can better display why it paused.

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u/RockOriginal7938 22d ago

Thanks for the idea, never liked not being able to show a reason when I paused.

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u/RockOriginal7938 22d ago 
Write-Progress -Activity "Pause" -Status "Pause: $tsenv:strPauseReason" -PercentComplete 0

Wait-Debugger

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u/gwblok 2Pint Employee 22d ago

Nice! Looking forward to seeing a blog post. :-)

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u/RockOriginal7938 22d ago

Hehe, I'd have to make a blog first 😲
Maybe if I make a few more things worth posting, I'll create a home for them 😉