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Friends.

Probably a really nice easy one.

On this technet thread 'BigTeddy' wrote a wonderful little script to get a dynamic menu from a Get-Service query.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/74c34d41-1cf6-494e-8fe2-13827c3b7a4d/create-dynamic-menu-system-with-powershell?forum=ITCG

I'm doing something similar and would like to know how to list both the Name and Status in the menu.

Here's the code:

$processes = Get-Process $menu = @{} for ($i=1;$i -le $processes.count; $i++) { Write-Host "$i. $($processes[$i-1].name)" $menu.Add($i,($processes[$i-1].name)) } [int]$ans = Read-Host 'Enter selection' $selection = $menu.Item($ans) ; Get-Process $selection

Is that something that can easily be achieved? I'm somewhere around a basic user for PowerShell and so can't figure out where, if anywhere, to put the .Status

Thanks

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I guess you have gotten a reply or figured this one out?

Switched get-process to get-service

$services = Get-Service $menu = @{} for ($i=1;$i -le $services.count; $i++) { Write-Host "$i. $($services[$i-1].name),$($services[$i-1].status)" $menu.Add($i,($services[$i-1].name))} [int]$ans = Read-Host 'Enter selection' $selection = $menu.Item($ans) ; Get-Service $selection
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For others looking for this post, I was having some issues with

$selection = $menu.Item($ans)

If you need other properties of the original array / collection try

$selection = $services[$ans-1]

Then you can access

$selection.DisplayName $selection.StartMode

etc

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