PowerShell Build a 2D HTML table - html

Question

In my script I've collected all the data I want to report in different variables. Now I'm trying to generate an HTML-table so I can send this by mail.
What I would like to achieve is HTML-code that generates this:
OU | Logon scripts incorrect | Name incorrect | No description
\\Domain\NLD Users | 2 | 6 | 2
\\Domain\FRA users | 5 | 7 | 0
\\Domain\BEL users | 6 | 1 | 1
TOTAL USERS: 2048 | 13 | 14 | 3
I'm a bit confused on what would be the best approach for this (array, psobject, hashtable, ..). Because I'm not going to work with a foreach loop, the data would be static.
What I tried so far but isn't quite giving the desired result:
$Table = #( ('OU', 'Logon scripts incorrect', 'Name incorrect', 'No description'),
('\\Domain\NLD Users','2','6','2' ),
('\\Domain\FRA Users','5','7','0' ),
('\\Domain\BEL Users','6','1','1' ),
('TOTAL USERS: 2048','13','14','3' )
)
$Table | ConvertTo-Html -As Table -Fragment
It feels like I'm over-complicating things.

Answer 1

convertto-html is waiting for a psobject as its input.
What you can do is pass your data as csv then use convertfrom-csv to tansform it to psobject the run convertto-html :
$Table = #"
'\\Domain\NLD Users','2','6','2'
'\\Domain\FRA Users','5','7','0'
"#
$Table | ConvertFrom-Csv -Header 'OU', 'Logon scripts incorrect', 'Name incorrect', 'No description' | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment -As Table

Answer 2

#( ('OU', 'Logon scripts incorrect', 'Name incorrect', 'No description'),
('\\Domain\NLD Users','2','6','2' ),
('\\Domain\FRA Users','5','7','0' ),
('\\Domain\BEL Users','6','1','1' ),
('TOTAL USERS: 2048','13','14','3' )
) | Select-Object -Skip 1 | ForEach-Object{
[PSCustomObject]#{
OU = $_[0]
"Logon scripts incorrect" = $_[1]
"Name incorrect" = $_[2]
"No Description" = $_[3]
}
} | ConvertTo-Html -As Table -Fragment
From what i have read ConvertTo-Html takes .Net Objects and not arrays to convert to html. I converted your static table to a custom object which then was exported. This might look more to your liking.

Answer 3

You're creating an array of arrays with your statement, which looks neat, but isn't something ConvertTo-Html can handle. Create new objects instead (this is for v3):
$x = #(
([pscustomobject] #{
"OU" = "\\Domain\NLD Users";
"Logon scripts incorrect" = 2;
"Name incorrect" = 6;
"No description" = 2;
}),
([pscustomobject] #{
"OU" = "\\Domain\FRA Users";
"Logon scripts incorrect" = 5;
"Name incorrect" = 7;
"No description" = 0;
})
# ...and so on, or more realistically, constructed using Foreach-Object
)
$x | convertto-html -fragment
If you're confined to PowerShell v2, you can use new-object -type psobject -prop instead, but then the properties are not ordered so you will need an explicit Select.