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Audi86
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Aug 25, 2022

Converting code to run on single item by disabling for loop

 

 

 

 

hi,

Below i have a chunk of code which is running on each item in my SharePoint online classic document library using a for loop. I want to modify it as a test to run on a single item or any specific item by disabling for loop. How can  I achieve that?

Thanks

 

 

 

#Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WorkflowServices.dll"
 
#Set Parameters
$SiteURL="https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites"
$ListName =" Documents"
 
#Get Credentials to connect
$Cred= Get-Credential
 
Try{
    #Setup the context
    $Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
    $Ctx.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
     
    #Get the Web, List and List Item Objects
    $Web = $Ctx.Web
    $Ctx.Load($Web)
    $List = $Web.Lists.GetByTitle($ListName)
    $ListItems = $List.GetItems([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.CamlQuery]::CreateAllItemsQuery())
    $Ctx.Load($List)
    $Ctx.Load($ListItems)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
 
    #Initialize Workflow Manager and other related objects
    $WorkflowServicesManager = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WorkflowServices.WorkflowServicesManager($Ctx, $Web)
    $WorkflowSubscriptionService = $workflowServicesManager.GetWorkflowSubscriptionService()
    $WorkflowInstanceService = $WorkflowServicesManager.GetWorkflowInstanceService()
    $WorkflowAssociations = $WorkflowSubscriptionService.EnumerateSubscriptionsByList($List.Id)
    $Ctx.Load($WorkflowAssociations)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
 
    #Loop through each List Item
    ForEach($ListItem in $ListItems)
    {
        #Get Workflow Instances of the List Item           
        $WorkflowInstanceCollection = $WorkflowInstanceService.EnumerateInstancesForListItem($List.Id, $ListItem.Id)
        $Ctx.Load($WorkflowInstanceCollection)
        $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
         
        #Get all Workflow Instances in progress
        ForEach ($WorkflowInstance in $WorkflowInstanceCollection | Where {$_.Status -eq "Suspended"})
        {
            [PSCustomObject] @{
                                ItemID              = $ListItem.ID
                                Status              = $WorkflowInstance.Status
                                WorkflowStarted     = $WorkflowInstance.InstanceCreated
                                WorkflowAssociation = $WorkflowAssociations | where {$_.ID -eq $WorkflowInstance.WorkflowSubscriptionId} | Select -ExpandProperty Name
                                ItemUrl = "$($Web.Context.Web.Url)/$($workflowInstance.Properties["Microsoft.SharePoint.ActivationProperties.CurrentItemUrl"])"
                                StartedBy = $workflowInstance.Properties["Microsoft.SharePoint.ActivationProperties.InitiatorUserId"]
                                
                              }
          <# $WorkflowInstanceService.TerminateWorkflow($WorkflowInstance)
           Read-Host -Prompt "Do you want to Terminate this instance:"
           $Ctx.ExecuteQuery() 
           Write-host -f Green "'$($WorkflowAssociations | where {$_.ID -eq $WorkflowInstance.WorkflowSubscriptionId} | Select -ExpandProperty Name)'is Terminated"#>
        }
    }
}
Catch {
Write-host -f Red "Error:" $_.Exception.Message
}

 

 

 

 

    • Audi86's avatar
      Audi86
      Brass Contributor
      is there anything i can use in powershell code itself. its a try and catch code with for loop but if i want to test this code on only one single item then what modification i can do? any idea?
      • If it's not a specific item, then you could use 'break' to stop the script at any point, after line 23 I guess. That way you have all the data in the variables and only process the first item in the foreach loop. If it's a specific item, then you could insert a line before 10 with an 'if ($WorkflowInstance -eq 'xxxx) {' and then a break after line 23 so that it stops processing other items

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