Publish-Item output

[simoncroak]

Hi Everyone,
I'm using SPE to help automate our release process. One of the last pieces I need to automate is a full site publish.

I know I can do this using the following command:
Publish-Item -Path master:\sitecore -Recurse -PublishMode Smart -Target web

However there is no output to that command, so I'm unable to tell when it completes,
I notice that the following output is written to the Publishing log once the publish is complete:

ManagedPoolThread #1 09:26:53 INFO Starting [Publishing] - AddItemsToQueue
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:26:53 INFO Finished [Publishing] - AddItemsToQueue in 0 ms
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:26:53 INFO Starting [Publishing] - ProcessQueue
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:37:57 INFO Finished [Publishing] - ProcessQueue in 663573 ms
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:37:57 INFO Publish Mode : Smart
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:37:57 INFO Created : 383
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:37:57 INFO Updated : 427
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:37:57 INFO Deleted : 0
ManagedPoolThread #1 09:37:57 INFO Skipped : 190670

Any ideas how I get this sort of output to the SPE console? Instead of the log on the server?

Thanks

Simon

[michaellwest]

The PowerShell command is simply calling the back end API. I don't think there is much we can do for the ootb command. You could probably get a reference to the job and see if the process counter goes up. Then you would have a while loop with a sleep command.