I am trying to select objects in a folder by date range
Function Get-DateRange
{
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.windows.forms”) |
out-null
$WinForm = New-Object Windows.Forms.Form
$WinForm.text = “Calendar Control”
$WinForm.Size = New-Object Drawing.Size(411,190)
$Calendar = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar
$Calendar.MaxSelectionCount = 356
$Calendar.SetCalendarDimensions([int]2,[int]1)
$WinForm.Controls.Add($Calendar)
$WinForm.Add_Shown($WinForm.Activate())
$WinForm.showdialog() | Out-Null
$Calendar.SelectionRange
} #end function Get-DateRange
*** Entry point to script ***
$dates = Get-DateRange
Get-ChildItem -path “\server.domain.com\path” | Where-Object { $.LastWriteTime -like ($dates).start -and $.LastWriteTime -like ($dates).end}
When I run this the calender comes up and when I select my date range and then close but the result of the files to not populate… I do not get any errors it just returns nothing. so I think what I am doing wrong is just in the last bit.
Can someone help me sort this out?
You problem is here with your Where-Object. -like is not the correct operator to use. You need -gt and -lt
Get-ChildItem -path "\\server.domain.com\path" | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt ($dates).start -and $_.LastWriteTime -lt ($dates).end}
Thanks Curtis but that still doesn’t work. I am still getting no results returned and I have verified there are objects in the folder for if I manually run
Get-ChildItem -path “\server.domain.com\path”
it will return what is there and I can see the LastWriteTime property.
But when I try to add in the dates I get nothing.
Hi,
Looking at last bit where you do logical compare makes me wonder.
You take an object (where-object) and then say that this object has to have LastWriteTime same as date.start and same as date.end. This is because you use “-and”. This is possible only if you select 1 day range.
I think you should say:
Where-Object { $.LastWriteTime -ge ($dates).start -and $.LastWriteTime -le ($dates).end}
This would translate to LastWriteTime is same or higher than start date AND is lower or equal as date.end.
Didn’t test this 
And ups, Curtis beat me to it
This is my run of your code with nothing more that the -gt -lt changes and a path that is local for me. I selected a range of Dec 1 - Dec 9. I also tested both PoSh 2.0 and 4.0. Worked in both versions.
Function Get-DateRange
{
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") |
out-null
$WinForm = New-Object Windows.Forms.Form
$WinForm.text = "Calendar Control"
$WinForm.Size = New-Object Drawing.Size(411,190)
$Calendar = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar
$Calendar.MaxSelectionCount = 356
$Calendar.SetCalendarDimensions([int]2,[int]1)
$WinForm.Controls.Add($Calendar)
$WinForm.Add_Shown($WinForm.Activate())
$WinForm.showdialog() | Out-Null
$Calendar.SelectionRange
} #end function Get-DateRange
# *** Entry point to script ***
$dates = Get-DateRange
#Get-ChildItem -path "\\server.domain.com\path" | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -like ($dates).start -and $_.LastWriteTime -like ($dates).end}
Get-ChildItem -path "F:\Temp\Powershell\part" | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt ($dates).start -and $_.LastWriteTime -lt ($dates).end}
Results:
Directory: F:\Temp\Powershell\part
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 12/2/2015 2:19 AM 174 test.ps1
-a--- 12/2/2015 12:25 PM 79 FileP.txt.alsdfjlas
-a--- 12/2/2015 12:26 PM 88 FileD.txt.g65fg4
-a--- 12/2/2015 12:26 PM 78 FileR.txt.af8a9etaf
-a--- 12/2/2015 12:26 PM 78 FileR.txt - Copy.af8a9etaf
-a--- 12/2/2015 12:25 PM 79 FileP.txt - Copy.alsdfjlas
-a--- 12/2/2015 12:26 PM 88 FileD.txt - Copy.g65fg4
Here is what I discovered…
If I just select a range up until today so 1-9 it returns no results.
However if I add one day into the future (december 1 - 10) then it returns the results
That means your files were last modified today. If you look at the values returned by the MonthCalendar object, you will see that it returns a datetime object at 00:00 hours (12:00 AM) for the date you select. So selecting today’s date as an ending date does not inlcude today’s files.
Function Get-DateRange
{
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") |
out-null
$WinForm = New-Object Windows.Forms.Form
$WinForm.text = "Calendar Control"
$WinForm.Size = New-Object Drawing.Size(411,190)
$Calendar = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar
$Calendar.MaxSelectionCount = 356
$Calendar.SetCalendarDimensions([int]2,[int]1)
$WinForm.Controls.Add($Calendar)
$WinForm.Add_Shown($WinForm.Activate())
$WinForm.showdialog() | Out-Null
$Calendar.SelectionRange
} #end function Get-DateRange
# *** Entry point to script ***
$dates = Get-DateRange
$dates | FT -AutoSize
Results:
Start End
----- ---
12/1/2015 12:00:00 AM 12/9/2015 12:00:00 AM
One easy work around is to add 1 day to your end value. That also means you should probably use -ge and -lt, rather than -gt and -lt in your Where-Object.
Function Get-DateRange
{
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") |
out-null
$WinForm = New-Object Windows.Forms.Form
$WinForm.text = "Calendar Control"
$WinForm.Size = New-Object Drawing.Size(411,190)
$Calendar = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar
$Calendar.MaxSelectionCount = 356
$Calendar.SetCalendarDimensions([int]2,[int]1)
$WinForm.Controls.Add($Calendar)
$WinForm.Add_Shown($WinForm.Activate())
$WinForm.showdialog() | Out-Null
$Calendar.SelectionRange
} #end function Get-DateRange
# *** Entry point to script ***
$dates = Get-DateRange
$dates | FT Start, End -AutoSize
$dates.Start
$dates.End
$dates.End.AddDays(1)
Results:
Start End
----- ---
12/1/2015 12:00:00 AM 12/9/2015 12:00:00 AM
Tuesday, December 01, 2015 12:00:00 AM
Wednesday, December 09, 2015 12:00:00 AM
Thursday, December 10, 2015 12:00:00 AM
Hi Curtis thanks again for your help, your suggestion ended up doing the trick for me.
Hello,
Interesting enough but I would like to use these kind of forms and specify the start time as well. Because I want to implement them in maintenance plans and usually those have specific times in them. For example:
Maintenance window: Saturday 10/09/2016 8:00AM -> 11/09/2016 12PM
How can one add the time as selection as well?
Thanks