This pattern is useful when generated reports already exist under a local Reports folder and you want a browsable entry point.

It is adapted from Examples/TheDashboardMinimal.ps1.

Example

Import-Module TheDashboard

$reportsRoot = Join-Path $PSScriptRoot 'Reports'
$dashboardPath = Join-Path $reportsRoot 'Index.html'
$statisticsPath = Join-Path $PSScriptRoot 'Dashboard.xml'

Start-TheDashboard -HTMLPath $dashboardPath -StatisticsPath $statisticsPath -ShowHTML {
    $today = Get-Date

    New-DashboardGage -Label 'Reports' -MinValue 0 -MaxValue 100 -Value 12 -Date $today
    New-DashboardGage -Label 'Warnings' -MinValue 0 -MaxValue 100 -Value 3 -Date $today

    New-DashboardFolder -Name 'Active Directory' -IconBrands windows -UrlName 'ActiveDirectory' -Path (Join-Path $reportsRoot 'ActiveDirectory')
    New-DashboardFolder -Name 'Group Policy' -IconBrands microsoft -UrlName 'GroupPolicy' -Path (Join-Path $reportsRoot 'GroupPolicy')

    New-DashboardReplacement -SplitOn '_' -AddSpaceToName
    New-DashboardReplacement -AfterSplit @{
        'G P O' = 'GPO'
        'L D A P' = 'LDAP'
        'D C' = 'DC'
    }
    New-DashboardLimit -LimitItem 1 -IncludeHistory
}

The gage values above are placeholders. In a production dashboard, replace them with counts from your own report generation pipeline.

What this demonstrates

• building a static dashboard page
• grouping report folders behind friendly labels
• cleaning generated report names without exposing environment-specific paths

Source

• TheDashboardMinimal.ps1