Run Powershell Actibity never completing

[JMA (Maes Jasper)]

WHen I try to run the following PowerShell it keeps running infinitely without completing.
Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong?

[Pablito (Pawel Wozniak)]

Hi @JMA,
Are you using Invoke PowerShell activity?

[JMA (Maes Jasper)]

Hi @Pablito , No I’m using the UiPath script activies ‘Run PowerShell Script’

@andrzej.kniola

Install package UiPath.Script.Activities (if you haven’t already) and use RunPowerShellScript activity.

I am also trying with the Invoke PowerShell but doing it that way I can not seem to figure out how to capture the output.
I am always getting the error compiler error encountered processing expression: output type PSObject is not defined:

[Pablito (Pawel Wozniak)]

Please take a look on this. Maybe it will help

How to Integrate PowerShell with UiPath- Step by Step guide

How to Integrate PowerShell with UiPath This topic is a step by step guide for integrating Powershell with Uipath. There is an ‘Invoke Powershell Activity’ available in Uipath which can be used to run the powershell scripts. For our example purpose, let us consider a simple powershell script which gives us the status of windows services on the machine. This script will have two input parameters: • ServiceState (String) – To get the status of service. For e.g. ‘Running’ , ‘Stopped’ etc • Outp…

[rmunro (Rene Munro)]

Enable “Isscript” and also change to “string”.

[JMA (Maes Jasper)]

Thanks,

Changing the TypeArgument & enabling the IsScript indeed did solve my problem !

[rmunro (Rene Munro)]

@JMA,
I had the same issue in the past, I’m glad I was able to help. Please mark it as solution for others that have the same problem in the future are able to find it. Thank you.