{"id":2897,"date":"2013-09-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/09\/09\/powertip-use-powershell-to-access-orchestrator-variables-or-data\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-access-orchestrator-variables-or-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-access-orchestrator-variables-or-data\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Access Orchestrator Variables or Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to access the Orchestrator variables or published data.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to access the Orchestrator variables or published data from the data bus?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Right-click the middle of the script, click&nbsp;<strong>Subscribe<\/strong>, and choose&nbsp;<strong>Variable<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>Published Data<\/strong>&nbsp;as you normally would in Orchestrator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Ensure that you enclose the subscribed data within quotation marks if the information is a string or Date\/Time data, and then assign it to a Windows PowerShell object as you normally would:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">$FooString=&rdquo;{SomeCoolThingInOrchestrator}&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">$FooNumber={ACounterOfSomeKind}<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">[Datetime]$FooDate=&rdquo;{DateFieldfromOrchestrator}&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to access the Orchestrator variables or published data. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to access the Orchestrator variables or published data from the data bus? Right-click the middle of the script, click&nbsp;Subscribe, and choose&nbsp;Variable&nbsp;or&nbsp;Published Data&nbsp;as you normally would in Orchestrator. Ensure that you enclose the subscribed data within quotation marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to access the Orchestrator variables or published data. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to access the Orchestrator variables or published data from the data bus? Right-click the middle of the script, click&nbsp;Subscribe, and choose&nbsp;Variable&nbsp;or&nbsp;Published Data&nbsp;as you normally would in Orchestrator. Ensure that you enclose the subscribed data within quotation marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}