This monday I published the article about a runbook using PowerShell to generate HTML Data.
Read it here:
In this article I will expand it a little, so that it also contains a Data/Time Stamp for when the data was updated.
So how do we do it?
- Create the runbook, following the guide from the other article, or import the downloadable version.
- Double click the “Write Web Page” Activity.
- In the Text field add the following text below the “{HTML Output from “Run .Net Script”}” tag:
<tr><td colspan=2> Last Updated: </td> </tr>
- this will add a new row to the table containing one cell that spans both columns.
- in the space are “Last Updated: “, before the </td>. Right Click and select Subscribe -> Returned Data
- You will see this window:
- as you can see, we only have a few properties available, but we need the date/time for when the activity was started.
- To make this available check the box “Show Common Returned Data”
- As you can see, a lot of other properties is shown.
- Select the property called “Activity end time”
- Click OK
- Click Finish
- Now your modification is complete.
- Test the runbook in the testing console.
- The outputted html file should look like this:
That’s all for today!
You can use these “Common published data” for a lot of stuff, including loop conditions and filters!
Use your imagination! 🙂
