PSobject Has table to PStables

Question

Hi Guys,
I having real hard time to figure out why same code used by me in tow different scripts result into two different views of psobject table
$states = @{"Name" = "$N"; "SourceDatabase" = "$so"; TargetDatabase = "$TG";"Status" = "$ST"}
$Psobj = new-object -TypeName PSObject -Property $states
$Psobj
cause : ( View 1)
SourceDatabase : XYX-10
Name           : X.Y
TargetDatabase : XYZ-10
Status         : Failed
SourceDatabase : XYX-10
Name           : A.B
TargetDatabase : MTLDAG04-DB4
Status         : XYZ-10
and In other script it gives me ( View -2 )
$hash = @{"Displayname" = "$ds" ; "ItemCount" = "$itc" ; "TotalItemSize" = "$itz" ; "EmailAddress" = "$EL" }
$Table = New-Object -TypeName Psobject -Property $hash
$table
Displayname                   ItemCount                     TotalItemSize                
EmailAddress
A.b                  113                          
1.626 MB (1,704,471 bytes)    [email protected]
C.d                  5234                          452.5
MB (474,456,513 bytes)  [email protected]
E.f                  24693                         2.506
GB (2,690,950,345 by... [email protected]
The difference can be seen on same server , same shell session as well
Thanks in Advance .
I am looking to get second view consistently

Answer 1

jrv is correct that it's the formatting system at work. Its trying to show you your objects in a way that's readable most of the time. So, it will show an object with less than five properties as a table if you don't tell it how to display it. It will show
your object as a list if it has five or more properties. You can force it to a certain view by piping the results to 'Format-List' or 'Format-Table' (be careful, though, because this will make it so you can't usefully pipe those results to anything else; the
Format-* cmdlets will make it so your objects are pretty much only good for looking at in the host).
Now, that's how it works when you're interactively displaying one item at a time. If more than one object is coming out at a time, the formatting system doesn't follow the previous rules (it still follows rules, though). If two objects come out, it will
format them both the way that it formatted the first one. This means that if an object that PS would normally format as a list comes out, and an object that it would normally format as a table comes out right after it, they will both be formatted as a list.
To see this in action, open an ISE session and run the following lines one at a time (or in the console paste the lines in one at a time):
# Run these first two commands to define two objects
$List = New-Object PSObject -Property @{ a = 1; b = 2; c = 3; d = 4; e = 5 }
$Table = New-Object PSObject -Property @{ a = 1; b = 2; c = 3; d = 4 }
# Run this by itself, it will show as a list b/c there are at least
# five items:
$List
# Run this by itself, it will show as a table b/c there are less than
# five items:
$Table
# If you run this they will both show as a table b/c the first object
# comes out as a table. You will also be missing the 'e' column since
# the first object didn't show that
$Table; $List
# If you run this, they will both show as a list b/c the first object
# comes out as a list. All properties will show for each object
$List; $Table
So, if you're not interested in keeping your objects as true objects that can be worked with later (using ForEach-Object, Where-Object, Export-Csv, etc), then you could do this to force the output as a table:
$Objects | Format-Table