$Context.TargetObject.SetInfo not performing

Question

Hi

I've written the script below which reads the contents of a file from the network and write this to a users "adm-CustomAttributeText1" field.
The code works as expected up to the point where I use the SetInfo when nothing is actually written to the users object.

#Read the message from the text file
$File = "path to file.txt"
[string]$Tip = Get-Content $File

#Check the message is short enough, truncate and warn the user if it isn't. Set the message it if is.
if ($Tip.Length -gt 175) {

    $Temp = "You can only use 175 characters for this message. Your message has been truncated as follows, please remove this line, edit and save your message again.`r`n" + $Tip.SubString(0, 175)
    Set-Content -Path $File -Value $Temp
} Else {

    $Context.TargetObject.Put("%adm-CustomAttributeText1%",$Tip)
    $Context.TargetObject.SetInfo
}

I know that the Put is working, because of I add the following line to the script after the put, I get the value back:

Set-Content -Path "Path to another file.txt" -Value $Context.TargetObject.Get("%adm-CustomAttributeText1%") 

If I use brackets after the SetInfo (as per the examples) then I just get a message 'Exception calling "SetInfo" with "0" argument(s).'
If I try putting the attribute name (or anything else) in the brackets then I get an error that there is no overload for a single argument.
Without the brackets the script seems to be happy and runs, but the value is not written to the attribute.

Any help would be greately appreciated.

Thanks

Comments

I should have specified, this is running inside an Adaxes Custom Command.
The script is running as a domain admin account.

Answer 1

Hello,

The thing is that SetInfo is a method, not a property. According to PowerShell syntax, when calling a method, you need to use parenthesis.

Also, as the 1st parameter of the Put method, you need to pass the name of a property whose value you want to set, however %adm-CustomAttributeText1% will return you the value of the adm-CustomAttributeText1 attribute. To pass the attribute name, remove the percent characters ('%').

Somthing like this should resolve your issue:

<i class="text-italic">...
    $Context.TargetObject.Put("<strong class="text-bold"><span class="color" style="color: #008000;">adm-CustomAttributeText1</span></strong>", $Tip)
    $Context.TargetObject.SetInfo<strong class="text-bold"><span class="color" style="color: #008000;">()</span></strong>
}</i>

Comments

Hi

That's worked, thanks very much.

Matt