How to get the descendants of the values/folder in `Read-Variable` command using `Fast` query?

Question

I have here a Read-Variable command that will make you select any content folder.

$root= Get-Item master:\content\home

$selectFolder= Read-Variable -Parameters
    @{ Name = "root"; Title="Start Item"; Root="/sitecore/content/"}
    -Description "This Dialog shows less editors, it doesn’t need tabs as there is less of the edited variables"
    -Title "Initialise various variable types (without tabs)" -Width 500 -Height 480 -OkButtonName "Proceed" -CancelButtonName "Abort"

Now, I want to get the descendants of the folder selected above that are based on this template id {FF24F59C-E4B4-4130-A119-036A02B3543B} using fast query.

Answer 1

Look at the script below.

1. First initial value for $selectFolder is set.
2. Then Read-Variable is called and Name = "selectFolder" path says that whatever is selected in the popup should be set back to $selectFolder variable.
3. Then the query is executed to search in master database with full item path and template of your choice.

$selectFolder = Get-Item master:\content\home

$result = Read-Variable -Parameters `
    @{ Name = "selectFolder"; Title="Start Item"; Root="/sitecore/content/"} `
    -Description "This Dialog shows less editors, it doesn’t need tabs as there is less of the edited variables" `
    -Title "Initialise various variable types (without tabs)" -Width 500 -Height 480 -OkButtonName "Proceed" -CancelButtonName "Abort"

$queryResult = Get-Item Master: -Query ($selectFolder.Paths.FullPath + "//*[@@templateid='{76036F5E-CBCE-46D1-AF0A-4143F9B557AA}']")
$queryResult