external help file: PoshBot-help.xml Module Name: poshbot online version: schema: 2.0.0

New-PoshBotCardResponse

SYNOPSIS

Tells PoshBot to send a specially formatted response.

SYNTAX

New-PoshBotCardResponse [[-Type] <String>] [-DM] [[-Text] <String>] [[-Title] <String>]
 [[-ThumbnailUrl] <String>] [[-ImageUrl] <String>] [[-LinkUrl] <String>] [[-Fields] <IDictionary>]
 [[-Color] <String>] [[-CustomData] <Object>] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

Responses from PoshBot commands can either be plain text or formatted. Returning a response with New-PoshBotRepsonse will tell PoshBot to craft a specially formatted message when sending back to the chat network.

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

function Do-Something {
    [cmdletbinding()]
    param(
        [parameter(mandatory)]
        [string]$MyParam
    )

New-PoshBotCardResponse -Type Normal -Text 'OK, I did something.' -ThumbnailUrl 'https://www.streamsports.com/images/icon_green_check_256.png' }

Tells PoshBot to send a formatted response back to the chat network. In Slack for example, this response will be a message attachment with a green border on the left, some text and a green checkmark thumbnail image.

EXAMPLE 2

function Do-Something {
    [cmdletbinding()]
    param(
        [parameter(mandatory)]
        [string]$ComputerName
    )

$info = Get-ComputerInfo -ComputerName $ComputerName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($info) { $fields = [ordered]@{ Name = $ComputerName OS = $info.OSName Uptime = $info.Uptime IPAddress = $info.IPAddress } New-PoshBotCardResponse -Type Normal -Fields $fields } else { New-PoshBotCardResponse -Type Error -Text 'Something bad happended :(' -ThumbnailUrl 'http://p1cdn05.thewrap.com/images/2015/06/don-draper-shrug.jpg' } }

Attempt to retrieve some information from a given computer and return a card response back to PoshBot. If the command fails for some reason, return a card response specified the error and a sad image.

PARAMETERS

-Type

Specifies a preset color for the card response. If the [Color] parameter is specified as well, it will override this parameter.

Type Color Hex code
Normal Greed #008000
Warning Yellow #FFA500
Error Red #FF0000 
Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 1
Default value: Normal
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-DM

Tell PoshBot to redirect the response to a DM channel.

Type: SwitchParameter
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: False
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Text

The text response from the command.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 2
Default value: [string]::empty
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Title

The title of the response. This will be the card title in chat networks like Slack.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 3
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-ThumbnailUrl

A URL to a thumbnail image to display in the card response.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 4
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-ImageUrl

A URL to an image to display in the card response.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 5
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-LinkUrl

Will turn the title into a hyperlink

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 6
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Fields

A hashtable to display as a table in the card response.

Type: IDictionary
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 7
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Color

The hex color code to use for the card response. In Slack, this will be the color of the left border in the message attachment.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 8
Default value: #D3D3D3
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-CustomData

Any additional custom data you'd like to pass on. Useful for custom backends, in case you want to pass a specifically formatted response in the Data stream of the responses received by the backend. Any data sent here will be skipped by the built-in backends provided with PoshBot itself.

Type: Object
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 9
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

INPUTS

OUTPUTS

PSCustomObject

NOTES

New-PoshBotTextResponse