PSWriteHTML - PowerShell Module

PSWriteHTML is PowerShell Module to generate beautiful HTML reports, pages, emails without any knowledge of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. To get started basics PowerShell knowledge is required. PSWriteHTML is a fork of ReportHTML module. I've forked ReportHTML due to it being outdated and not maintained. I also wanted to address some problems it had and add more features. As it stands PSWriteHTML is a complete rewrite. Make sure to read blog posts provided to understand the concepts and how you can use PSWriteHTML for your own needs.

• PSWriteHTML - PowerShell Module
  • How to install
    • Installing
    • Updating
  • Articles worth reading to understand use cases
  • Changelog
  • Advantages over ReportHTML
  • Credits
  • Projects using PSWriteHTML (to give you ideas of what you can do)
  • 3rd Party Libraries

How to install

While you can take sources and use it from here, PSWriteHTML actually is composed of multiple other of my modules. To get it up and running you will need *PSSharedGoods, and PSSharedGoods will need Connectimo and PSWriteColor. While Connectimo or PSWriteColor aren't needed for PSWriteHTML, PSSharedGoods uses them for some of the commands and it will fail without them. You can get all that from sources but if you just want to use my modules you should use the Install-Module command. It's available in PowerShell 5.1. As an added bonus when I publish modules to PowerShellGallery I remove any junk, minimize modules to a single file which makes them faster to load and use. I really encourage you to use the module from PowerShellGallery and treat GitHub as a highly development version. Since version 0.0.61 when PSWriteHTML is published every dependency is baked into PSWriteHTML. That means you don't need to download any other modules unless you want to contribute to this project.

Installing

Install-Module -Name PSWriteHTML -AllowClobber -Force

Force and AllowClobber aren't necessary but they do skip errors in case some appear.

Updating

Update-Module -Name PSWriteHTML

That's it. Whenever there's a new version you simply run the command and you can enjoy it. Remember, that you may need to close, reopen the PowerShell session if you have already used the module before updating it.

The important thing is if something works for you on production, keep using it till you test the new version on a test computer. I do changes that may not be big, but big enough that auto-update will break your code. For example, small rename to a parameter and your code stops working! Be responsible!

Dependencies: PSSharedGoods, PSWriteColor and Connectimo are only used during development. When published to PSGallery / Releases it's a merged release without any dependencies.

Articles worth reading to understand use cases

• [x] Meet Statusimo – PowerShell generated Status Page
• [x] Meet Dashimo – PowerShell Generated Dashboard
• [x] Dashimo – Easy Table Conditional Formatting and more
• [x] Out-HtmlView – HTML alternative to Out-GridView
• [x] Meet Emailimo – New way to send pretty emails with PowerShell
• [x] All your HTML Tables are belong to us
• [x] Sending HTML emails with PowerShell and zero HTML knowledge required
• [x] Dashimo (PSWriteHTML) – Charting, Icons and few other changes
• [x] Working with HTML in PowerShell just got better
• [x] Comparing two or more objects visually in PowerShell (cross-platform)
• [x] Easy way to create diagrams using PowerShell and PSWriteHTML
• [x] Nested Tabs, Diagram Updates, Diagram Events, Calendar Object and more in PSWriteHTML
• [x] Emailimo merged into PSWriteHTML, IE support and no dependencies
• [x] Active Directory DHCP Report to HTML or EMAIL with zero HTML knowledge
• [x] Creating Office 365 Migration Diagram with PowerShell
• [x] Advanced HTML reporting using PowerShell

Changelog

PSWriteHTML undergoes changes that hopefully will make it more versalite, consistent and better. Unfortunetly some code is very old, some code doesn't serve it's purpose anymore, and requires heavy changes that may have an impact on already deployed code. Please make sure to read changes before updating, as we're undergoing some breaking changes.

• 0.0.143 - 2021.03.18

  • [x] Improves New-TableCondition by detecting non-existing column names
  • [x] Improves New-TableConditionGroup by adding logic operator NONE
  • [x] Fixes New-TableConditionGroup with Inline switch

• 0.0.142 - 2021.03.17

  • [x] Improves New-HTMLText URL Link markdown parsing #216 - thank you Alan Longstaff

• 0.0.141 - 2021.03.17

  • [x] Added IncludeProperty/ExcludeProperty to New-HTMLTable/Out-HTMLView for easy excluding properties we don't need
    • [x] Example Get-Process | Out-HtmlView -ExcludeProperty Name -First 3

• 0.0.140 - 2021.03.17

  • [x] Changed New-TableCondition parameter name from CaseInsensitive to CaseSensitive
    • [x] This means by default conditions of strings are not case sensitive

• 0.0.139 - 2021.03.16

  • [x] Improved Out-HTMLView

• 0.0.138 - 2021.03.16

  • [x] Added alias for New-HTMLTableOption
  • [x] Forces Table within EmailBody to respect font-size and other style options given to EmailBody

• 0.0.137 - 2021.03.16

  • [x] Fix for timeline charts not working due to date conversion
  • [x] Fix for chart events (I don't know how i test things)
  • [x] Library
    • [x] Upgrade ApexCharts from 3.22 to 3.26
    • [x] Upgrade VisNetwork from 9.0.3 to 9.0.4

• 0.0.136 - 2021.03.14

  • [x] Fixed - Values with decimals do not auto-find within html table when clicking on charts/pies #209
  • [x] Table Conditioning - highly improved table conditions. This requires some documentation/blog post
    • [x] Added New-TableCondtionGroup
    • [x] Improved New-TableCondition
    • [x] Let's hope I didn't break anything
  • [x] Added ability to configure ArrayJoin/ArrayJoinString for DataStore HTML using New-HTMLTableOption
  • [x] Added New-HTMLMap experimental cmdlet
    • [x] Due to that cmdlet size have become larger
  • [x] Library
    • [x] Updated DataTables 1.10.21 to 1.10.24
    • [x] Updated MomentJS to 2.29.1

• 0.0.135 - 2021.03.07

  • [x] Added ability to create plugins for PSWriteHTML -> Example: PSWriteHTML.Maps
    • [x] Keep in mind that module is not required as the functionality is part of the PSWriteHTML module anyways - it's just an example on how to do it yourself
  • [x] Removed Adobe icon from FontsAwesome (Brands)
  • [x] Library
    • [x] Updated VisNetwork from 9.0.2 to 9.0.3
  • [x] Added Width parameter to New-HTMLSection which allows New-HTMLSection -Width 30% or similar
  • [x] Added Title field in New-DiagramNode
  • [x] Improves ability to provide basic HTML in Label/Title in New-DiagramNode

• 0.0.134 - 2021.03.05

  • [x] Fixes wrong register argument completer for New-HTMLTextBox
  • [x] Fixes SearchPane not completly visible #193

• 0.0.133 - 2021.03.04

  • [x] Library
    • [x] Updated DataTables ColReorder 1.5.2 -> 1.5.3
    • [x] Updated DataTables FixedColumns 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2
    • [x] Updated DataTables FixedHeader 3.1.7 -> 3.1.8
    • [x] Updated DataTables 1.10.22 -> 1.10.23
    • [x] Updated DataTables KeyTable 2.5.3 -> 2.6.0
    • [x] Updated DataTables Responsive 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7
    • [x] Added DataTables SearchBuilder 1.0.1
    • [x] Updated DataTables SearchPanes 1.2.1 -> 1.2.2
    • [x] Updated FancyTree 2.33 -> 2.38
    • [x] Updated JustGage 1.4.0 -> 1.4.1
    • [x] Updated FullCalendar 5.1.0 -> 5.5.1
    • [x] Added DataTables Search Alphabet 1.0.0 with personal PR
    • [x] Updated OrgChart from 2.2.0 to 3.1.0, 3.1.1
    • [x] Updated VisData from 7.1.1 to 7.1.2
    • [x] Updated VisNetwork from 8.5.5 to 9.0.2
    • [x] Updated VisTimeline from 7.4.2 to 7.4.6
    • [x] Updated EasyQrCode from 4.3.0 to 4.3.2
    • [x] Added DataTables Select -> 1.3.1
  • [x] Added ability OverwriteDOM in New-HTMLTable to provide granular option how options are visually positioned
  • [x] Added ability SearchBuilder in New-HTMLTable for multi-condition search
  • [x] Added ability SearchHighlight in New-HTMLTable
  • [x] Added ability AlphabetSearch in New-HTMLTable
  • [x] Fixes New-ChartLegend hex colors but most likely all other cmdlets where more than one HEX based color was used
  • [x] Added HeaderTextSize to New-HTMLSection
  • [x] Added New-TablePercentageBar for New-HTMLTable
  • [x] Added New-ChartEvent
  • [x] Fixed New-HTMLTable -DataStore JavaScript when dollar ($) is used within column name or content
  • [x] Improved New-HTMLTableOption added ArrayJoin,ArrayJoinString
  • [x] Fixed New-HTMLTable export to excel would only export visible columns. Exports all again
  • [x] Improved some CDN handling

• 0.0.132 - 2021.02.02

  • [x] Fixed Format/Minify error message when PSParseHTML is not installed.
  • [x] Fixed Table headers pushed to the left when using ScrollX with Tabs #191

• 0.0.131 - 2021.01.29

  • [x] New-HTMLTable AjaxJSON fixed - #189

• 0.0.130 - 2021.01.16

  • [x] Update New-HTMLTableStyle with more options and functionality

• 0.0.129 - 2021.01.11

  • [x] Update New-HTMLText regex for urls - tnx chrisdent!

• 0.0.128 - 2021.01.09

  • [x] Fixed Export to Excel deletes all commas #182

• 0.0.127 - 2021.01.06

  • [x] Reverted ApexCharts to 3.22 from 3.23 (offline version)

• 0.0.126 - 2021.01.06

  • [x] Reverted ApexCharts to 3.22 from 3.23
    • [x] During tab switch it would sometimes fail to display charts properly - reported to apex #2137

• 0.0.125 - 2021.01.02

  • [x] Easy QR Code update 4.2.1 to 4.3.0

• 0.0.124 - 2021.01.02

  • [x] Added New-HTMLQRCode to provide HTML based QR codes

• 0.0.123 - 2020.12.23

  • [x] Potentially Breaking Changes
    • [x] Removed custom Headings (H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6) -> New-HTMLHeading still works just using defaults
      • [x] It was totally inconsistent between H1-H6, probably needs new CSS for those later on that will be consistent and inline with other code
    • [x] Removed H7 heading totally - it got there by some copy paste from internet
    • [x] Removed custom Horizontal Line (HR) -> New-HTMLHorizonalLine still works just using defaults
      • [x] Not looking good, the default one looks better, more consitent but may need some work in the future
    • [x] New-HTMLLogo is now marked as obsolete. It was there from day one but it's not really customizable. New way will be given sometime in the future
      • [x] It still works, CSS code is only added when it's used
    • [x] Removed custom link highlights CSS. Not sure if it was ever used, hopefully not. May come back in future in better form
    • [x] When EmailBody is used it will no longer put JavaScript or CSS inside HTML for advanced features such as DataTables, or anything that used to be there
      • [x] This is to make sure EMAIL HTML is as small as possbile
      • [x] JavaScript in emails won't work in 90% of cases and it would just add to the junk in HTML
      • [x] However if EmailBody is used within Email and AttachSelf is used it will generate same HTML using full JS/CSS code
      • [x] This ensures that self attach should work as it used to, at the same time providing small HTML in email
    • [x] JavaScript/CSS is now marked as safe for email or normal HTML reports/pages. What that means some CSS/JS is marked only as being added to Email or vice versa.
  • [x] Improvements to CSS
    • [x] The goal of PSWriteHTML is to get into state where only really nessecary code is added. Less CSS is now included by default
    • [x] Hopefully there are no major problems from those changes
    • [x] The default margin for all elements should be 5px, however when used within email it will be set to 0px
      • [ ] This mainly is important for Images/Text/Headings but all other html objects such as tables and so on, also are supposed to have 5px margin
    • [x] It would seem Roboto Condensed or other fonts defined in font-family across code were never used and defaults were kicking in
      • [x] I've now fixed it so Roboto Condensed is used when Online mode
      • [x] In Offline mode it will still go back to Sans-Serif (usually Arial)
      • [x] I've removed other font-families from multiple CSS files to make it visually consistent
      • [ ] May need to be revisited if Roboto Condensed is best choice
    • [x] Update to FontsAwesome from 5.14 to 5.15.1
    • [x] Update to FontsAwesome to work offline
      • [x] Unfortunetly this means 500KB file size in CSS module size and output HTML file is 500KB bigger
      • [x] I'm skipping including of TTF/SVG/EOT types as WOFF and WOFF2 should be enough for modern browsers
  • [x] Other changes
    • [x] Changed Tables row height to fit more data
    • [x] Changed Tables noscript version (email + no javascript) to fit more how DataTables looks like
    • [x] Improved HTMLTable with Simplify switch positioning
    • [x] New-HTML added parameter AddComment - by default comments are not added to code now
    • [x] Added link preloading for styles - not sure if it will help but why not
    • [x] Fix for New-DiagramOptionsLinks setting lenght which would have resultant html error
    • [x] EmailTextBox renamed to New-HTMLTextBox. EmailTextBox added as alias to that command
    • [x] Added Format and Minify switches to New-HTML and EmailBody. Those will only be working if PSParseHTML is installed.
      • [ ] PSParseHTML is not installed by default and you need to install it separatly Install-Module PSParseHTML. There is no intention of bundling it at this moment.
      • [ ] Known issue: Removes comment required for Internet Explorer javascript to not prompt when using as local file
    • [x] Improved New-HTMLTimelineItem generated HTML when no color is used
    • [x] Added Enable-HTMLFeature to bring JS/CSS even if it's not used
    • [x] Calendars & DataTables & Diagrams should now resize/fit properly on Global Tab change
    • [x] Calendars & DataTables & Diagrams are now resize/fit properly on Wizard Step Change
    • [x] Calendars & DataTables & Diagrams are now resize/fit properly on Tab Panel Tab Change
    • [x] Tracks all tables with Fixed Headers/Footers and disables/enables them on tab switch/wizard step switch / tab panel switch
  • [x] Diagram Changes
    • [x] New-DiagramLink - added SmoothType, SmoothForceDirection and SmoothRoundness
    • [x] New-DiagramLink - fixed FontAlign which was using wrong validateset.
    • [x] Diagrams should now fit properly upon changing tabs. It used to hide outside of screen.
  • [x] Library updates
    • [x] Update of Apex Charts to 3.23.0
    • [x] Update of VisJS to 8.5.5

• 0.0.122 - 2020.11.18

  • [x] Added New-ChartDataLabel currently supported in New-ChartTimeLine only
  • [x] Improvements New-ChartTimeLine - added by Splaxi #170 - Thank you (WIP)
  • [x] Added New-ChartToolTip currently supported in New-ChartTimeLine only - added by Splaxi #170 - Thank you (WIP)
  • [x] Improvements New-ChartAxisY
  • [x] Added parameter for EmailBody,New-HTMLText, New-HTMLSpanStyle - LineHeight. This allows for controling line height.

• 0.0.121 - 2020.11.15

  • [x] Added Accordion (alpha)
    • [x] New-HTMLAccordion
    • [x] New-AccordionItem
  • [x] Fix for New-HTMLDiagram to disable loader if physics is disabled, as diagram wouldn't load, and loader is not nessecary
  • [x] Fix for New-HTMLDiagram to load icons properly in Chrome, IE still requires press
  • [ ] VisNetwork update from 8.5.2 to 8.5.3

• 0.0.120 - 2020.11.07

  • [x] Fixes partially New-HTMLTable -FixedFooter issue #166
  • [x] ApexChart update 3.20 to 3.20.1
  • [x] VisNetwork update 8.4.1 to 8.5.2
  • [x] VisTimeLine update 7.3.7 to 7.4.2

• 0.0.119 - 2020.10.28

  • [x] Added ability to use nested lists in New-HTMLList,EmailList

• 0.0.118 - 2020.10.27

  • [x] Improvements to tab switching very fast which could cause an error #126 DATATABLE warning - Cannot reinitialize DataTable
  • [ ] Added UseDefaultCredential for EmailServer

• 0.0.117 - 2020.10.25

  • [x] Fix for issue when Charts are used with Diagrams
  • [x] ApexCharts update to 3.22 from 3.20.2
  • [x] Vis.js update to 8.4.1 from 8.3.2
  • [x] Small update to New-HTMLList with Reversed parameter
  • [x] Fix for missing responsive button for New-HTMLTable
  • [x] Updates to offline DataTables library

• 0.0.116 - 2020.10.21

  • [x] Charts improvement for Flex usage (doesn't require Panel anymore for positioning)

• 0.0.115 - 2020.10.21

  • [x] Updates to DataStore Javascript

• 0.0.114 - 2020.10.20

  • [x] Small fix to New-HTMLTable with DataStore JavaScript

• 0.0.113 - 2020.10.19

  • [x] New-HTMLTable - changes/improvements/adds
    • [x] Reworked JS/CSS loading for DataTables. It should now load less JS/CSS code by default making HTML smaller and more readable especially if not using all features
      • [ ] Some more work in this area is required. Small breaking change was introduced
    • [x] Breaking Change - Renamed DisableColumnReorder to EnableColumnReorder
      • [ ] The reason for this is that the functionality is most likely used by very few people if at all
      • [ ] This, in turn, allows me to load JS/CSS for ColumnReordering only when someone requests for this functionality
    • [x] Added EnableRowReorder
    • [x] Added EnableKeys (excel like movement) to New-HTMLTable. Probably could add more options for this via nested New-TableXXX
    • [x] Added PagingLength to New-HTMLTable. This improves PagingOptions / DisablePaging.
      • If user doesn't set Paging Length it will use defaults
      • If user doesn't set Paging Options it will use default @(15, 25, 50, 100)
      • If user doesn't set Paging Length, but sets different Paging Options such as @(5,10,15), initial paging length will be set to lowest value 5
      • If user sets paging options and sets paging length it will set as requested
    • [x] Added EnableScroller to New-HTMLTable. This improves ScrollY. It allows to load data as it appears rather than loading everything. Should be plenty useful in JavaScript DataStore for large datasets
    • [ ] Enabling Scroller doesn't require ScrollY enablement, but it will use ScrollSizeY default 500px. You can change it tho.
    • [x] Added EnableAutoFill to New-HTMLTable
    • [x] Improved New-HTMLTable to load only required CSS/JS (hopefully nothing will be broken)
    • [x] Updated Out-HTMLView with all new and old parameters to keep it synced with same the features as New-HTMLTable - hopefully, I didn't break anything
    • [x] Updated some DataTables JS/CSS versions
    • [ ] New-HTMLTableOption allows now to define BoolAsString, NumberAsString and DateTimeFormat
      • [ ] This only works in JavaScript and AjaxJSON datastore.
      • [ ] This allows one to better control how they want their bools, numbers, and DateTime displayed
      • [ ] For example: New-HTMLTableOption -DateTimeFormat "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" -BoolAsString
      • [ ] It will make sure all dates are converted to their string representation as requested
      • [ ] Default DateTime is yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
      • [ ] This is possible thanks to ConvertTo-JsonLiteral which is my own implementation of ConvertTo-JSON
  • [x] Navigation Functionality (WIP)
    • [x] Added New-HTMLNav command (WIP)
    • [x] Added New-HTMLNavLink command (WIP)
  • [x] Wizard Functionality
    • [x] Added New-HTMLWizard
    • [x] Added New-HTMLWizardStep
  • [x] Other
    • [x] Changed New-HTMLText to add 5px margin. Hopefully things are not affected.
    • [x] Added New-HTMLTabPanel - additional way to define tabs
    • [x] Updated JustGate from 1.3.5 to 1.4.0
    • [x] Updated EnlighterJs from 3.0 to 3.4.0
    • [x] Small updates to New-HTMLCodeBlock
    • [x] Fix for New-HTMLChart broken Title parameter
    • [x] New-HTMLList and New-HTMLListItem updated with FontSize

• 0.0.112 - 2020.10.06

  • Fixed issue with x2 PDF Export button - If ScrollY is selected the pdf button is doubled then #154 - tnx Jekastr
  • Better handling of empty data in New-HTMLTable

• 0.0.111 - 2020.10.05

  • Added New-HTMLOrgChart (WIP)
  • Added New-OrgChartNode (WIP)

• 0.0.110 - 2020.09.29

  • Fix for New-HTMLImage messed up height with width

• 0.0.109 - 2020.09.28

  • If no author is provided meta is not added
  • EmailText size parameter supports the usual settings as described below
  • Removed EmailText and added it as an alias to New-HTMLText which does the same thing
  • Renamed EmailHTML to Add-HTML, added EmailHTML as alias - this allows to inline any code wherever it's used
  • Added EmailImage as alias to New-HTMLImage
  • Added Inline switch to New-HTMLImage (EmailImage) which embeddes given url/file image directly into HTML
  • Improved New-HTMLImage/EmailImage
  • Prevents errors New-HTMLTable if null is passed as the first element in DataTable (skips processing)

• 0.0.108 - 2020.09.23

  • Added escaping regex for string comparison during New-TableEvent

• 0.0.107 - 2020.09.23

  • Fix for Table Redraw/Calendar Redraw when tab switching/section collapsing

• 0.0.106 - 2020.09.23

  • Fix for New-TableEvent not working properly for column id different than 1
  • Improvements to New-TableEvent introducing Source/Target columns with Source Column Names support

• 0.0.105 - 2020.09.23

  • Improved New-HTMLTable - removed page button if DisablePaging or ScrollY is selected
  • Updated PSD1 to a better version
  • Fix for New-HTMLTable always forcing to HTML if not global option was used

• 0.0.104 - 2020.09.14

  • Added notlike/notcontains operators to New-TableCondition
  • Fixed like/notcontains operators for JavaScript datasource in New-TableCondition

• 0.0.103 - 2020.09.13

  • Fix for wrong custom CSS placement

• 0.0.102 - 2020.09.13

  • Updates
  • Fix for New-DiagramEvent to work while FontIcons are used
  • Some improvements to New-HTMLPanel to better positioning Diagrams
  • Added Loading Bar to New-HTMLDiagram. You can disable it using the DisableLoader switch.

• 0.0.101 - 2020.09.12

  • Updates
    • [x] Added Transpose to New-HTMLTable/Out-HtmlView

• 0.0.100 - 2020.09.12

  • Library updates
    • Update to Apex Charts from 3.20.0 to 3.20.1
  • Updates
    • [x] Fix long-lasting issue with loading FontIcons in diagrams. Should be visible now.
    • [x] Support for nested hashtables ConvertTo-CascadingStyleSheets
    • [x] Fix/workaround for IE11 issue with section not showing any data, broken in 0.0.99

• 0.0.99 - 2020.09.07

  • Notes
    • [x] UTF8 will be set by default for HTML. Email will pick content encoding from HTML
      • [x] It was already set for HTML for charset so just making sure it's all the same
    • [x] Encoding parameter for EmailOption and Email are DEPRECATED
      • [x] Whatever you set there doesn't matter - it will always be set to UTF8. From my tests setting it to anything else messes up display in some clients
      • [x] While not really breaking change, just thought I would make sure people are aware
      • [x] The reason is HTML was always UTF8 and setting it up on transport level to Unicode or other encodings would break things
      • [x] In outlook it wouldn't matter as it would fix it, but in other clients such as Thunderbird it would go nuts
  • Library updates
    • Update to vis-network from 8.2.1 to 8.3.2
  • New/Non-Breaking
    • [x] Added aliases for New-HTMLTableOption
    • [x] Fixes for Request Configuration for Sections and Panels
    • [x] Fixes meta tags for HTML4/HTML5
    • [x] Addeed NoClosing parameter to New-HTMLTag
    • [x] Improvements to Section Hiding horizontally and vertically
    • [x] Improvements to diagram resizing when section resizes - should be no need to resize diagram anymore

• 0.0.98 - 2020.08.30

  • New/Non-Breaking
    • [x] Added DataStoreID to New-HTMLTable for use with DataStore = JavaScript
      • [x] This allows multiple tables to use the same data. Useful if you want to present the same data in different tables across a single HTML file.
    • [x] Fixes for JavaScript datastore and conditional formatting

• 0.0.97 - 2020.08.29

  • Breaking changes
    • [x] Diagrams
      • [x] New-DiagramLink
        • [ ] ArrowsToEnabled -> nullable bool replaced with switch
        • [ ] ArrowsMiddleEnabled -> nullable bool replaced with switch
        • [ ] ArrowsFromEnabled -> nullable bool replaced with switch
        • [ ] ArrowStrikethrough -> nullable bool replaced with switch
        • [ ] Chosen -> nullable bool replaced with switch
        • [ ] FontSize -> int replaced with object - check notes in 0.95
        • [ ] FontStrokeWidth -> int replaced with object - check notes in 0.95
  • New/Non-Breaking
    • [x] New-DiagramNode
      • [ ] Exposed ArrowsToEnabled, ArrowsMiddleEnabled, ArrowsFromEnabled
    • [x] Update to Diagram Height accepting multiple size values
      • [x] This allows for New-HTMLDiagram -Height 'calc(100vh - 50px)' which fills whole screen (within section)
      • [x] Or this New-HTMLDiagram -Height 'calc(100vh - 50px)' -Width '50vw' although not that useful, as flex fixes most of it
    • [x] Updates New-DiagramOptionsPhysics - exposed a bunch of new options plus help
    • [x] Updates New-DiagramOptionsLayout - added some help and new options
  • Updated library
    • [x] Vis-network to 8.2.1

• 0.0.96 - 2020.08.28

  • [x] It seems SearchPanes from DataTables conflict with New-HTMLDiagram
    • [x] Separated that library to be added only on demand

• 0.0.95 - 2020.08.27

  • Notes
    • I'm reworking CSS model in which PSWriteHTML works allowing for more consistent design and more customization options. This means some breaking changes will happen soon enough.
    • FontSize will be reworked for most commands (as I get to them) to take [int] input but also [string] input
      • If [int] is provided it assumes size given in px. If text is provided it takes it as is.
        • If 15 this means 15px
        • If 15px this means 15px
        • If 15pt this means 15pt
        • If '15' this means 15px as it will convert to [int] first
        • Anything else will be treated as is meaning you know what you are doing
  • Breaking changes
    • [x] Default Font Size for everything is 8pt. This includes:
      • [x] Tabs used to have 15px. Now by default 8pt. You will need New-HTMLTabOption -FontSize '15px' or New-HTMLTabOption -FontSize 15 to set default fontsize for Tabs to it's old value (along with other customizations if needed)
      • [x] Inputs for Tables (Filtering) having static 8pt
  • Improvements
    • [x] New-HTMLMain - allows customizing font size, font type, background color, and text color globally - this will overwrite defaults as described above
    • [x] Fix TempFilePath for Email to work correctly on MacOS/Linux - tnx roberttoups #146
    • [x] Auto-wrapping of Tabs is enabled - can be disabled via New-HTMLTabOption
    • [x] Bunch of options to control wrapping/direction of tabs via New-HTMLTabOption
    • [x] Ability to define RowElements in New-HTMLTabOption to force number of tabs per row
    • [x] Fixed BackgroundColor for New-HTMLTabOption
    • [x] Removed default.css in favor of native powershell css
    • [x] New-HTMLTable warning - Hiding footer while filtering is requested without specifying FilteringLocation to Top or Both
    • [x] Fixed broken Tab switching in Internet Explorer 11
    • [x] Added basic support for SearchPane within New-HTMLTable
    • [x] Fixed broken Tables refresh on Tabs when using named Tables
    • [x] Fixed New-HTMLTable/Out-HTMLView with -AllProperties displaying wrong properties for IDictionary objects
    • [x] Fixed New-HTMLTable properly displaying string/int and other data if passed as a single value
    • [x] Fixed New-HTMLTable properly display ordered dictionary, array of strings, array of singular objects, PSCustomObject with 1 column
    • [x] Fixed New-HTMLTable properly displaying column name as Name in PowerShell 5.1 when used with int/string
    • [x] Fixed New-HTMLText font size was ignored. Also now supports 15, 15px, 15pt as described in notes.
    • [x] Resolves peformance issues by adding new parameter DataStore for New-HTMLTable to use with large tables
  • Added cmdlets
    • [x] New-HTMLTableStyle
    • [x] New-HTMLTableOption - added to provide DataStore parameter which globally sets required store, may be used for other things in future
    • [x] New-ChartTimeLine - added basic support for TimeLine Charts
  • Renamed cmdlets (non-breaking change via aliases)
    • [x] New-HTMLTabOption -> New-HTMLTabStyle
    • [x] New-HTMLSectionOption -> New-HTMLSectionStyle
  • Library updates
    • DataTables and all related libraries
    • JQuery to 3.5.1
    • ApexCharts updated from 3.18.2 to 3.20
    • FontAwesome updated from 5.13 to 5.14

• 0.0.94 - 2020.08.18

  • Public
    • [x] Added New-TableEvent for New-HTMLTable experimental

• 0.0.93 - 2020.08.16

  • Public
    • Fixes
      • [x] Fix for New-HTMLTabOption switch "-SelectorColor" sets the color permanently #128
      • [x] Fix for InvokeHTMLTags in New-HTMLTable - replacement of (& to &) and (  to <space>)
        • [x] Before it would try to change from '  to <space> which is wrong. Hopefully, nothing will be broken after that
    • Improvements
      • [x] Choosing colors should be easier (wildcard added before and after)
      • [x] Make it optional for New-HTMLTab to force TextTransform (uses global)
      • [x] New-HTMLSection/New-HTMLPanel were updated to support additional options
    • New
      • [x] Added ConvertTo-CascadingStyleSheets - converts hashtable into CSS
      • [x] Added New-HTMLSectionOption - experimental
      • [x] Added New-HTMLPanelOption - experimental
      • [x] Added AnchorName for sections and panels
      • [x] Added New-HTMLAnchor/New-HTMLLink
  • Internal
    • [x] Support internally for Custom Header CSS, Custom Footer CSS

• 0.0.92 - 2020.08.08

  • Fixes New-HierarchicalTreeNode not recognized in latest modules #141

• 0.0.91 - 2020.08.03

  • Refreshing release - fix for Remove-EmptyValue

• 0.0.90 - 2020.07.27

  • Added New-TableColumnOption for New-HTMLTable - tnx zsoch #138
  • Removed dead/old FullCalendar js code
  • Updated JustGage to 1.3.5

• 0.0.89 - 2020.07.23

  • Fix for Tooltips in FullCalendar 5.1 - tnx smasterson #137

• 0.0.88 - 2020.07.21

  • Updated New-HTMLCalendar with more options for InitialView parameter - tnx smasterson #135

• 0.0.87 - 2020.07.20

  • Updated FullCalendar library to 5.1 from 4.3
  • New-HTMLCalendar- removed plugins parameter (no longer required)
  • New-HTMLCalendar - removed WeekNumbersWithinDays (no longer required)
  • New-HTMLCalendar - added InitialView parameter
  • Fixed Tabs switching with multiple tables on each tab fails #134
  • Fixed Tabs switching with calendars #133

• 0.0.86 - 2020.07.14

  • Fix for missing Get-TemporaryDirectory during merge - damn nested ASTTokens
  • Module is now signed (hopefully that doesn't break anything)

• 0.0.85 - 2020.06.27

  • Update New-HTMLSpanStyle with some protection for errors
  • Fix from PSSCriptAnalyzer - The Variable 'Event' is an automatic variable that is built into PowerShell, assigning to it might have undesired side effects. If the assignment is not by design, please use a different name.

• 0.0.84 - 2020.06.11

  • Colors autocompleter should be now a bit smarter
  • Added Online to EmailBody
  • EmailBody can be used separately now to generate HTML in case someone would like to use it with their own Send Email
    • Say .. using Mailozaurr (new PowerShell module)
  • Email has OutputHTML parameter which can send email but also output HTML for whatever reason

• 0.0.83 - 2020.05.27

  • Fix for New-HTMLMain and junk code showing up in HTML

• 0.0.82 - 2020.04.23

  • New-HTMLTable added ability to define Title which will be used as the filename when exporting
    • If no Title is defined title is used from New-HTML
    • If no Title is provided name of button will be used (default)
  • New-TableButtonXXX also have Title field which allows different naming for buttons

• 0.0.81 - 2020.04.18

  • New-HTMLDiagram keeps expanding without height bug fixed (#113) with huge help from Thomaash

• 0.0.80 - 2020.04.13

  • DEPRECATED: UseJavaScriptLinks and UseCssLinks for New-HTML. Use Online switch instead.
  • Updated Vis.JS to 7.5.2
  • Updated FontAwesome to 5.13 and hopefully made it available offline
  • Updated ApexCharts to 3.18.1
  • Changed default for Email to Offline. Use Online switch to minimize content.
  • New-HTMLTable -HideButtons added #114

• 0.0.79 - 2020.03.24

  • Typo fixes for Suppress
  • Added AutoSize parameter for New-HTMLTable/EmailTable
  • Out-HtmlView switched to Offline mode by default. Added Online switch.
    • Considering same approach to New-HTML (by default it's offline, but naming convention UseJavaScriptLinks and UseCssLinks is a bit weird)

• 0.0.77 - 2020.03.04

  • Updates to New-HTMLStatusItem #111 - tnx jimmy58663
    • Support for FontAwesome, More colors and Hex.
  • Fixes to New-HTMLHeading color property being empty

• 0.0.76 - 2020.02.07

  • Added -PreventShowHTML to Out-HtmlView for quick use with Path.

• 0.0.75 - 2020.02.07

  • Improvment for very long words in New-HTMLTable and New-TableContent using WordBreak parameter - issue #107

• 0.0.74 - 2020.01.26

  • Improvements to speed Targetted DataTable recalc for tabs and sections - pull #105 / issue #101 - tnx opustecnica

• 0.0.73 - 2020.01.20

  • Fix for Out-HtmlView erroring out if Table was not given (or null)

• 0.0.72 - 2020.01.13

  • Removed unused CSS
  • Fix for Out-HtmlView buttons missing PageLength
  • Added FavIcon to New-HTML #99 / #102 - tnx xlrod
  • Updates to New-TableConditionalFormatting for IE 11 support #100 - tnx opustecnica
  • Updates to Search via RegularExpressions #100 - tnx opustecnica

• 0.0.71 - 2019.12.26

  • Fix for New-HTMLSection -JustifyContent missing in Invisible
  • Added option to disable the "Properties" row in Out-HTMLView -SkipProperties for Compare feature (tnx AdrianDeller) (#91 / #96)
  • Added New-HTMLHeader, New-HTMLMain, New-HTMLFooter

• 0.0.70 - 2019.12.19

  • Library update
    • JQuery to 3.4.1
    • ApexCharts to 3.11.1, and set a static version (instead of the latest)
  • Added New-HTMLTree, New-TreeNode (basic preview)
  • Added New-HTMLHeader, New-HTMLFooter, New-HTMLMain allowing adding content before Tabs or after all content. (#74)

• 0.0.69 - 2019.12.10

  • Fix for EmailList #90 - tnx natosullivan
  • Added New-HTMLGage, New-GageSector

• 0.0.68 - 2019.12.07

  • Library update
    • Vis-Network to 6.4.6
  • Diagrams now work in Internet Explorer (yay!)
  • Add Tab border customization and Tab header background color (tnx xlrod!) #87
    • [x] New-HTMLTabOption -SlimTabs -SelectorColor Blue -BorderRadius 25px -BorderBackgroundColor LightBlue
  • Added Tests so basic stuff is tested for regression (it's very basic)
  • Added alias for New-TableConditon (TableCondition)

• 0.0.67 - 2019.11.26

  • Save-HTML improvment to save to temp file if saving fails (tnx xlrod!) (#81 / #86)
  • Fix for New-HTMLTable (Convert-ImagesToBinary) on PS 6/7

• 0.0.66 - 2019.11.25

  • Added JustifyContent to New-HTMLSection (thx xlrod!) (#79 / #85)

• 0.0.65 - 2019.11.23

  • Fix for Hashtable/OrderedDictionary display in New-HTMLTable/Out-HTMLView

• 0.0.64 - 2019.11.21

  • Added TextTransform for New-HTMLTab (thx xlrod!)

• 0.0.63 - 2019.11.17

  • Fix for WhatIf in Email affecting other places. It should only affect sending emails.

• 0.0.62 - 2019.11.12

  • IE doesn't require approving running scripts anymore! (tnx orzfly)

• 0.0.61 - 2019.11.11

  • New colors (tnx Ferdi), along with the ability to use #HEX as color codes
  • Emailimo integrated into PSWriteHTML
  • PSSharedGoods is no longer a dependency
    • The way it works is that during development it still is dependency, but during publish it gets merged into one package using PSPublishModule

• 0.0.60 - 2019.11.05

  • Fix for IE 11 support of collapsable sections
  • Fix for nested, invisible sections not working properly

• 0.0.59 - 2019.10.29

  • Library update
    • DataTables upgrade to Nightly (1.10.21-dev) due to broken Table Conditioning. Works with IE as well.

• 0.0.58 - 2019.10.28

  • Library update
    • Vis-Network to 6.3.0 (known issue - IE not working)
    • DataTables downgrade to 1.10.12 for IE to work
  • Fix for IE 11 support of Tabs
  • Fix for IE 11 support of Tables (Out-HTMLView/New-HTMLTable)
  • Fix for Section that starts as Collapsed #47
    • It's a heavy fix, meaning it can have perf impact on display - may need changes
  • Added New-TableRowGrouping
    • Allows grouping within New-HTMLTable

• 0.0.57 - 2019.10.13 - Blog post about release

  • Changes to Tabs
    • Fix for missing comma in Tabs
    • Fix for Tab Selector Color not being applied after changing to Nested Tabs
    • Fix for Tab Selector not being Active by default
  • Changes to Tables
    • Updated Table Row size to 20px from 27px
  • Renamed New-HTMLTablecommands to New-Table to better reflect what they deliver (and those don't deliver HTML)
    • Old commands still available as aliases
  • Added Calendar
    • Added New-HTMLCalendar
    • Added New-CalendarEvent
  • Added HierarchicalTreeView - very basic implementation. Not sure it will stick as Diagrams have that option as well Requires feedback
    • Added New-HTMLHierarchicalTreeView
    • Added New-HierarchicalTreeNode
  • Changes to Diagrams
    • Updated Visjs to 6.1.1 (local version), linked version is always the newest
    • Added New-DiagramEvent for linking Tables with Diagrams
    • Fix for Diagram Size
    • Fix for using diagram defaults (smaller size), should work better now

• 0.0.55 - 2019.09.29

  • Fix for Underlined space when using -Collapsable #51 - Thanks Tuxhedoh
  • Fix for Stacked Charts #59 - Thanks for reporting colin-hall
  • Fix for Section -Invisible switch
  • Fix for Section impacting charts positioning
  • Added BackgroundImage,BackgroundImageSize for New-HTMLDiagram (doesn't work for Export)
  • Added Nested Tabs

• 0.0.54 - 2019.09.29 - Blog Post about release

  • Support for Diagrams
  • Font Awesome updated to 5.11.2
  • Enlighter updated to 3.0
  • Dashimo integrated to PSWriteHTML as aliases

• 0.0.53 - 2019.09.19

  • Bugfix chart inverse colors #42 - Thanks Ferdi Weiner

• 0.0.52 - 2019.09.07

  • Library updates:
    • ApexCharts update 3.8.5
  • [x] New-HTMLChart
    • [x] Removed Positioning parameter
    • [x] Added New-ChartPie
    • [x] Added New-ChartRadial
    • [x] Added New-ChartDonut
    • [x] Added few parameters to New-HTMLChart

• 0.0.51 - 2019.09.05

  • [x] New-HTMLCode
    • [x] Added some formatting of whitespaces for code

• 0.0.50 - 2019.08.30

  • [x] Add-TableContent
    • [ ] Fix for a typo on LE (tnx gregwold)

• 0.0.49 - 2019.08.25 - Blog post about release

  • [x] Save-HTML
    • [ ] Moved some warnings to Verbose
    • [ ] Fixed weird message
  • [x] New-HTMLTable, Out-HTMLView
    • [ ] Added AllProperties switch
    • [ ] Added Compare/Replacements

• 0.0.48 - 2019.08.11

  • I don't know. Got confused about what was changed :-p

• 0.0.47 - 2019.08.04

  • [x] Fix for LOGO in PowerShell Core
  • [x] New-HTMLTable
    • [x] Added ImmediatelyShowHiddenDetails switch - Responsive has the ability to display the details that it has hidden in a variety of different ways. Its default is to allow the end-user to toggle the display by clicking on a row and showing the information in a DataTables child row. At times it can be useful not to require end-user interaction to display the hidden data in a responsive manner, which can be done with the childRowImmediate display type.
  • [x] Fix for New-HTML wrong positioning in certain conditions - bug introduced in 0.0.46
  • [x] Fix for Table Simplify with margins

• 0.0.46 - 2019.08.04 - Blog post about release

  • [x] New-HTMLMessage - Removed as not ready, useless
  • [x] New-HTMLTable
    • [ ] Disable Paging when amount of objects to display is lower then PagingOptions
    • [ ] Added DataTableID for special use cases
  • [x] New-HTMLTableContent - Added with plenty of new features
  • [ ] New HTMLTableConditionalFormatting - Added inline parameter

• 0.0.45 - 2019.07.09

  • [x] New-HTMLTable
    • [ ] Added $PriorityProperties parameter - it works also on ScrollX and other types of places contrary to ResponsivePriorityProperties which only works on Responsive Table
    • [ ] It was moved from Out-HtmlView
  • [X] Out-HTMLView
    • [ ] Updated with all features from New-HTMLTable as it's useful to use it for fast output

• 0.0.44 - 2019.07.08

  • [x] New-HTMLTable
    • [ ] Small improvement when no data provided
  • [x] New-HTMLTableCondition
    • [ ] Supports contains now - PR by Adam Cook (codamok)
  • [ ] Removed ColorSchemes - removal of ReportHTML old code

• 0.0.43 - 2019.07.01

  • [x] New-HTMLTable
    • [ ] Fix for ScrollX with low amount of columns

• 0.0.42 - 2019.07.01

  • [x] New-HTMLTableConditionalFormatting
    • [ ] Fix for Powershell Core, where conditional formatting wouldn't show up

• 0.0.41 - 2019.06.30

  • [x] New-HTMLTableHeader - removing need for AddRow switch
    • [ ] If used with only Title it will assume AddRow
    • [ ] If used with Names it will assume merging
    • [ ] If used with Names without Title it will assume styling
    • [ ] Left AddRow for compatibility reasons, may remove it in future

• 0.0.40 - 2019.06.29 - Blog post about release

  • [x] New-HTMLTable features
    • [x] FixedHeader/FixedFooter options
    • [x] Scrolling
      • ScrollX,
      • ScrollY, ScrollSizeY
      • FreezeColumnsLeft, FreezeColumnsRight
    • [x] ResponsivePriorityOrder, ResponsivePriorityOrderIndex
  • [x] New-HTMLTableHeader - new command
    • [x] Merging header, styling header, adding header row

• 0.0.39 - 2019.06.20

  • Fix for DefaultSortColumn
  • Fix for DefaultSortOrder when set to descending

• 0.0.38 - 2019.06.17 - Blog post about release

  • Added support for Bar Charts/Line Charts
  • Added support for icons in tabs
  • Added support for controlling tabs
  • Fixes for tables in multiple places
  • Ability to control buttons behavior
  • Many many more, it's a big release

• 0.0.34 - 2019.06.02

  • Fix for New-HTMLListItem to support multiple Texts

• 0.0.33 - 2019.05.28

  • New-HTMLTable - Sorting ordered for DateTime - PR by Ferdi Weiner (ferwe)
  • Removed New-HTMLChart temporary as it will be rebuilt

Advantages over ReportHTML

• complete rewrite
• faster report building (from 20+ seconds to 0-2 seconds)
• updated libraries
• bunch of different, new features
• easier building HTML

Credits

Matthew Quickenden (@lucidqdreams) - author of ReportHTML - without him this wouldn't be possible.

Projects using PSWriteHTML (to give you ideas of what you can do)

• Statusimo is a PowerShell module that is able to generate a Status Page entirely from PowerShell.
• Dashimo is a PowerShell module that makes generating Dashboards, nice looking HTML, a breeze.
• Emailimo is a PowerShell module that makes writing nice looking HTML emails, easy!
• Out-HTMLView is a PowerShell cross-platform command alternative to Out-GridView

Following external libraries and frameworks are in use. They make PSWriteHTML what it is now. This list is dynamic and doesn't cover everything yet.

For colors, you can visit this online page.

3rd Party Libraries

PSWriteHTML uses some 3rd party libraries to deliver its functionality. It requires those. There are two ways to use it

• With links to CSS/JS which makes code cleaner and easy to see what is happening
• With code inline in HTML which makes HTML much bigger (default, but makes PSWriteHTML usage offline possible)

Below you can find 3rd party libraries being used.

• DataTables.net - MIT license
• ApexCharts - MIT license
• Google Fonts (Roboto)
• Fonts Awesome
• Accordion - MIT license
• Kineto - MIT License
• MultiLevelPushMenu jQuery Plugin
• Vis-Network - Apache 2.0
• Vis-TimeLine - MIT and Apache 2.0
• EasyQRCodeJS - MIT license
• JQuery SmartWizard - MIT license
• JQuery SmartTab - MIT license
• PopperJS - MIT license
• MomentJS - MIT license
• JustGage - MIT license
• FrancyTree - MIT license
• FullCalendar - MIT license
• D3 Mitch Tree - MIT license
• JQuery - MIT license
• Chart.xkcd - MIT license
• OrgChart - MIT license
• HighlightJS - BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
• EnlighterJS - Mozilla Public License 2.0