Powershell, Excel, Pivot Table

PowerShell Help
1

Hello all,
Well, I am stumped again…
I have Pivot code i need to convert to Powershell, and I am just not getting it rights… so can anyone please help code this block for, Thanks in Advance…

This is Excel VB Code…
[blockquote]{Sub XX()
’
’ XX Macro

Sheets("PivotSheet").Select
ActiveWorkbook.PivotCaches.Create(SourceType:=xlDatabase, SourceData:= _
    "Data!R2C2:R1680C10", Version:=xlPivotTableVersion14). _
    CreatePivotTable TableDestination:="PivotSheet!R1C1", TableName:= _
    "PivotTable1", DefaultVersion:=xlPivotTableVersion14
Sheets("PivotSheet").Select
Cells(1, 1).Select
With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1").PivotFields("State")
    .Orientation = xlRowField
    .Position = 1
End With
With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1").PivotFields("Submit Date")
    .Orientation = xlRowField
    .Position = 2
End With
With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1").PivotFields("Actual Completion Date")
    .Orientation = xlRowField
    .Position = 3
End With
With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1").PivotFields("State")
    .Orientation = xlColumnField
    .Position = 1
End With
ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1").AddDataField ActiveSheet.PivotTables( _
    "PivotTable1").PivotFields("Actual Completion Date"), _
    "Count of Actual Completion Date", xlCount
Range("A8").Select
Selection.Group Start:=True, End:=True, Periods:=Array(False, False, False, _
    False, True, False, True)

End Sub}[/blockquote]

Here is the code converted to Powershell…
[blockquote]{[void]PivotSheet.Select()
$PivotRange = “Data!R2C2:J$lastrow”+‘C10’
$PivotTable = $WorkBook.PivotCaches().Create($xlDatabase,$PivotRange,$xlPivotTableVersion14)
$PivotTable.CreatePivotTable(“PivotSheet!R1C1”,“PivotTable1”) | Out-Null
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 500
[void]PivotSheet.Select()
$WorkSheet2.activate() | Out-Null

$Worksheet2.Cells.Item(1,1).Select()
$WorkBook.ShowPivotTableFieldList = $true
$PivotFields = $Worksheet2.PivotTables(“PivotTable1”).PivotFields(“State”)
$PivotFields.Orientation = $xlRowField
$PivotFields.Position = 1
$PivotFields = $Worksheet2.PivotTables(“PivotTable1”).PivotFields(“Submit Date”)
$PivotFields.Orientation = $xlRowField
$PivotFields.Position = 2
$PivotFields = $Worksheet2.PivotTables(“PivotTable1”).PivotFields(“Actual Completion Date”)
$PivotFields.Orientation = $xlRowField
$PivotFields.Position = 3
$PivotFields = $Worksheet2.PivotTables(“PivotTable1”).PivotFields(“State”)
$PivotFields.Orientation = $xlColumnField
$PivotFields.Position = 1

$PivotFields = $Worksheet2.PivotTables(“PivotTable1”).AddDataField($Worksheet2.PivotTables,
(“PivotTable1”).PivotFields(“Actual Completion Date”), “Count of Actual Completion Date”, $xlCount)

$PivotFields.Range(“A8”).Select}[/blockquote]

2

What’s not working? Is it getting to certain point and failing? I do see the PivotSheet variable is missing the $:

[void]PivotSheet.Select()

should be

[void]$PivotSheet.Select()

3

We would need more information about what you are expecting and what behavior you are seeing.
In addition to what Rob mentioned, I have had no luck with Select when dealing with ranges or cells. It appears to act as a noop. If I stop execution of the script at the point of the Select and do the selection manually in the visible spreadsheet, I find everything else works for my scripts. That is not very useful though.