Ability to run Powershell commands after clicking a button?

[mckayc]

So I just discovered BurntToast yesterday and am excited to use it!

Here is the situation I am trying to solve; at our company we often run Powershell scripts via GPO to install software or make changes to computers. One issue with this is that we would like to notify employees before we install software and give them an option to postpone.

The alarm clock function seems to be perfect for this.

New-BurntToastNotification -Text 'WAKE UP!' -Sound 'Alarm2' -SnoozeAndDismiss

You could essentially keep this as is with a Snooze button and replace the wording of "Dismiss" with "Run" then and people click the run button it runs the Powershell script.

Is something like this already possible?

Thanks!

(PS I realize this is not really an issue per se but I don't know where else to post this. If there is another place I can post this questions please let me know)

[Windos]

Hey @mckayc, unfortunately this isn't possible at the moment mainly because of limitation where PowerShell can't register actions against a "Windows RT" events.

There's an issue open about this on the PowerShell repo which has had some action recently.

Unfortunately, unless someone creates a wrapper/shim external to PowerShell any fixes that enable this will likely only apply to newer versions of PowerShell (e.g. 7.1+) meaning buttons that perform an action will require a PowerShell upgrade.

This is 100% the holy grail for toasts... I'm very invested in getting it working because it opens up so many doors.

[mckayc]

Thanks for your reply! Good to know what currently is and is not possible.

[jfthuong]

We could do something like:

1. Powershell main script registers a custom URI powershell to launch a given function (via the registry)
2. Assign the URI to the button

The URI could be something like powershell://path-to-my-script.ps1#my-function?arg1=value1&arg2=value2.

I remember seeing this somewhere in one of the talks about BurntToast.

If that is a viable option, we could have BurntToast that is doing actions behind the scene:

• Registering a specific URI (if not done already)
• Providing a more convenient way to assign the function to the button (a function like New-BTButtonAction or something like that)

Just some thoughts....

[Windos]

Hello, and thank you for your contribution to BurntToast.

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