Documentation, Cookbook

I have been staggering through the learning process of Powershell and the ProjectWise extentions...it's progressing but it needs more than the online "get-help".

I'm assuming (from the amount of posts that "point to the get-help") that there is no real documentation per se.

It occurs to me that what most of us admin types are looking for is what O'Reilly calls a "Cookbook".

I don't know about "most people" but I have a thousand tasks and these days uninterrupted programming time is hard to find. Often times, Production comes up with

problems and  they need a fast fix. in past days I kept a folder full of example code that I could pull from and make slight changes to accomplish a task. then I found the "cookbook" series by O'Reilly Press

and there was a book you could look up a task...say "processing all the files in a folder" and get a "push" in the right direction. I think this language and especially the PW extension could use a thing like this.

maybe just an area of example code, not even as sophisticated as a book. but a place where a PW admin can get a snippet and get going in the right direction.

In a year...most of us will have our own libraries of snippets...but for now at least it is a good opportunity to get everyone who is involved in this "going the right direction".

my two cents.

at the moment, I am looking for a way to load attributes for particular files.

we had files in a different document management system. we had to pull all those files out, put them into ProjectWise and now we have dumped the metadata for these files into excel.

My original thought was to populate the data via SQL...and that works, but it seems like this may be a good task for PowerShell.

Anyway,

I am looking for a way to use Powershell and the PW extensions to load this metadata into the custom attributes table.

any wisdom or examples "out there"?

Thank you !!

Bob