jamsgrove / simple-network-template

PowerShell Script to quickly and easily generate multiple config files from a single template.

How to Use this Templating Program

First, clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/Noxsios/Simple-Network-Template.git

1. Create a template config file

   a. Encapsulate the data you want to replace in double square brackets, [[LIKE SO]], a sample template is provided : template_sample.txt

2. Create a variables.csv file in the same folder as your template file.

It must be called variables.csv

The A1 entry must be WORD, view variables.csv for an example

3. Take that same placeholder name, and without the square brackets place it in Column A of the csv spreadsheet.

   a. Immediately to the right of that, in Column B, type what to replace that value with.

   b. Use Columns C+ for different variants of the information from Column B.

   b. To reiterate, the value(s) in Column B+ will replace the value of Column A in the final config file(s).

4. Double Click to run the engine.bat file

If nothing happens, right click on dragndrop_template.ps1, and respond A for [YES TO ALL] to the execution policy popup.

If the script is blocked due to downloading from a web source,

1. Drag and Drop your template text file into the empty window, then click START.

2. Your new file(s) with name ending in _config and your Column Headers will be generated in your config template's folder.

3. To make more copies, copy the values in Column B into Columns C+ and rerun.

The data in Row 1 of each Column (the Column Header) is added to the end of the generated config file,

So make sure you have a name for each column aside from the first, otherwise the script will fail

8. To overwrite your changes, simply rerun with different values in your variables.csv.