Reputation: 379
Right now I am using a button to generate unique XML code for every user it creates. Right now my XML looks like this:
<NewUser>
<ActiveDirectory>
<User>
<GivenName></GivenName>
<Surname></Surname>
<Title></Title>
<Department></Department>
<Company></Company>
<OU></OU>
<Office></Office>
<Management></Management>
<Groups>
<Group=""/>
</Groups>
<Location></Location>
</User>
</ActiveDirectory>
<Exchange>
<Database></Database>
</Exchange>
<TMW>
<SysAdmin></SysAdmin>
<Supervisor></Supervisor>
<CanDeletePay></CanDeletePay>
<UseDateCalender></UseDateCalender>
</TMW>
<DriverRecruitment>
<Admin></Admin>
<ManageNews></ManageNews>
<ManageEmployers></ManageEmployers>
<ManageWorkflows></ManageWorkflows>
<ManageCustomQuestions></ManageCustomQuestions>
</DriverRecruitment>
</NewUser>
What I am trying to do is make multiple <Group>
tags under the Groups
; one for each group that a user selects from a CheckedListBox.
What I need is something like this:
<Groups>
<Group name="Group1"/>
<Group name="Group2"/>
<!-- Create the rest dynamically as they are checked -->
</Groups>
Each one of these checkboxes is populated with a resource group that I pull directly from Active Directory. I assume I'm going to need to write some sort of foreach loop to set everything, but I can't seem to figure it out. Here is what I have so far:
# generates the xml
$XML_Path = "\\papertransport.com\files\UserDocuments\mneis\Code\XML\New User GUI XML Files\"
$GeneratedXML = "
<NewUser>
<ActiveDirectory>
<User>
<GivenName>$firstname</GivenName>
<Surname>$lastname</Surname>
<Title>$title</Title>
<Department>$department</Department>
<Company>$company</Company>
<OU>$OU</OU>
<Office>$office</Office>
<Management>$management</Management>
<Groups>
<Group></Group> <!-- Here is where I need to loop -->
</Groups>
<Location>$location</Location>
</User>
</ActiveDirectory>
<Exchange>
<Database>$database</Database>
</Exchange>
<TMW>
<SysAdmin></SysAdmin>
<Supervisor></Supervisor>
<CanDeletePay></CanDeletePay>
<UseDateCalender></UseDateCalender>
</TMW>
<DriverRecruitment>
<Admin></Admin>
<ManageNews></ManageNews>
<ManageEmployers></ManageEmployers>
<ManageWorkflows></ManageWorkflows>
<ManageCustomQuestions></ManageCustomQuestions>
</DriverRecruitment>
</NewUser>"
# Create file
$GeneratedXML | Out-File "\\papertransport.com\files\UserDocuments\mneis\Code\XML\New User GUI XML Files\NewUser-$firstname$lastname.xml"
And here is where I populate the CheckedListBox with the active directory resource groups:
$formPTINewUserCreation_Load={
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
# read in the XML files
[xml]$NewUserTest = Get-Content -LiteralPath \\papertransport.com\files\UserDocuments\mneis\Code\XML\NewUserTest.xml
# popoulate the checklist with the groups from active directory
$AD_ResourceGroups = Get-ADGroup -filter * -SearchBase "OU=Resource Groups,OU=Groups,OU=Paper Transport,DC=papertransport,DC=com"
$AD_ResourceGroups | ForEach-Object { $chklistGroups.Items.Add($_.name) }
}
Upvotes: 1
Views: 132
Reputation: 23355
Assuming $SelectedGroups
is populated with an array of groups selected by the checklist (or replace this with however you get that data), you can do this:
$Groups = $SelectedGroups | ForEach-Object {
" <Group>$_</Group>"
}
Then just use $Groups
in the appropriate place in $GeneratedXML
.
Upvotes: 2