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Repetitive Menu in Powershell

Hello,

I am wondering if in powershell I can do the following:

GOAL: Change AD User information (sn,givenName,department,title,telephoneNumber,employeeID,employeeNumber )

Scenario:
AD user information is read by a file (i.e 100+ users) and compared against AD users.

Stage1:
When reading User1 from file and compared against User1 in AD, it will prompt what would you like to change ?

1. sn
2. givenName
3. department
4. title
5. telephoneNumber
6. employeeID
7. employeeNumber
8. Exit

Let's say, option 1 is selected ans surname is changed in AD for User1 in AD.

Questions:
What if DataEntry was incorrect ?
What if want to keep changing information on this USER1 before the script jumps to USER2 and so on and ask .... what would you like to change....?

Thanks for your help,

footech

How about something like this? The choice is set up as a function, one of the choices moves on to the next user, one of the choices exits the script, for the rest you would put in the code to make the change. The function is continually looped through until you've parsed through all the users or have chosen to exit.

function editchoice 
{
    $title = "Change User Information"
    $message = "What user information do you want to change?"

    $choice0 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&Last name", "Edit last name."

    $choice1 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&First name", "Edit first name."

    $choice2 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&Department", "Edit department."

    $choice3 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&Title", "Edit title."

    $choice4 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&Phone number", "Edit telephone number."

    $choice5 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "employee &ID", "Edit employee ID."

    $choice6 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "employee &Number", "Edit employee number."

    $choice7 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "Next &User", "Move on to next User."
    
    $choice8 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "E&xit", "Exit."

    $options = [System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription[]]($choice0, $choice1, $choice2, $choice3, $choice4, $choice5, $choice6, $choice7, $choice8)

    $result = $host.ui.PromptForChoice($title, $message, $options, 0) 

    switch ($result)
        {
            0 { scriptblock to change surName }
            1 { scriptblock to change givenName }
            2 { scriptblock }
            3 { scriptblock }
            4 { scriptblock }
            5 {  }
            6 {  }
            7 { $script:sameuser = $false }
            8 { "Exiting..." ; exit }
        }

} #end function editchoice

$listusers = Import-CSV userlist.txt -header sn,givenName,department,title,telephoneNumber,employeeID,employeeNumber
$ADusers  = (Get-ADUser -filter * -properties sn,givenName,department,title,telephoneNumber,employeeID)
[bool]$sameuser = $true
$i = 0
While ($i -lt $listusers.count )
{
  ForEach ( blah blah)
  {
  #list to ADusers matching code goes here
  #may want to use Compare-Object here
      Do
      {
        editchoice
      } Until ( !($sameuser) )
    $i++
  }
}

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SubSun

What happened to the script which you were working on? is it not serving the purpose?