PowerShell/platyPS

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Forks: 166
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Indexed issues: 31
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Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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31 open issues indexed

Update-MarkdownCommandHelp fails on rerun when the .bak from the previous run exists Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

PowerShell/platyPS#863 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Export-MamlCommandHelp: a module file in the batch aborts the whole export and writes nothing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

PowerShell/platyPS#862 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Import module failed in clean session Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

PowerShell/platyPS#861 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Synopsis set to placeholder when description is missing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

PowerShell/platyPS#860 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Export-MarkdownCommandHelp renders .LINK entries as unusable markdown links Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

PowerShell/platyPS#858 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
New-CommandHelp throws for commands with an .EXAMPLE but no .DESCRIPTION Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

PowerShell/platyPS#857 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
INPUTS/OUTPUTS from comment-based help always get a {{ Fill in the Description }} placeholder Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

PowerShell/platyPS#856 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Update-MarkdownCommandHelp duplicates Parameter content if HelpMessage is specified Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/platyPS#844 · Opened May 7, 2026
Import-MarkdownCommandHelp does not resolve paths correctly in Windows PowerShell Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/platyPS#840 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2026
`New-MarkdownCommandHelp` & `Export-MamlCommandHelp` commands create a parent folder with module name Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/platyPS#835 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 8, 2025
Markdown Formatting Issues Open

Area-Comment-Based-Help

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/platyPS#830 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2025
`Import-Mamlhelp` loads only the first nodes in Inputs and Outputs. Open

Area-MAML

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/platyPS#825 · Opened Sep 24, 2025
New-MarkdownCommandHelp command outputs wrong parameter value type Open

Needs-Triage

PowerShell/platyPS#822 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2025
Updatable help provided on Microsoft servers since 2025-09-08 are bad and `Get-Help` gives reader-unfriendly output after `Update-Help` Open

Area-MAML

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/platyPS#818 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Maml Help generated by Export-MamlCommandHelp does not reflect parameter aliases Open

Area-MAML

PowerShell/platyPS#817 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Don't create the aliases section by default Open

Needs-Investigation Needs-Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/platyPS#805 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 20, 2025
PlatyPS cmdlets don't work with PSReadLine focused parameter help (ShowParameterHelp) Open

Area-MAML

PowerShell/platyPS#802 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Export-MamlCommandHelp doesn't include default value for parameter Open

Area-MAML

PowerShell/platyPS#801 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2025
New-CommandHelp throws error when using strict mode Open

PowerShell/platyPS#800 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 12, 2025
Links should throw warning/error on invalid character Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/platyPS#765 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2025
There is no cmdlet to process about help topics in the Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS Open

Idea-Helpv2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/platyPS#709 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2024
Load all assemblies in an ALC so they don't conflict with other modules Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/platyPS#579 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2022
Should platyPS support/document Validation Sets? Open

Needs-Investigation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/platyPS#560 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 17, 2022
Investigate need for Merge-MarkdownHelp Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/platyPS#539 · Opened Jun 4, 2021
V2 move schema template strings to RESX to allow for localization Open

Area-Localization

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/platyPS#535 · Opened May 24, 2021
Merge-MarkdownHelp expectation when parameter type varies across versions? Open

Area-MergeMarkdown

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

PowerShell/platyPS#511 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 4, 2021
PlatyPS doesn’t support localized headers. Open

Area-Localization

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/platyPS#484 · 1 comment · Opened May 29, 2020
WithModulePage extra information Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/platyPS#453 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 16, 2019
Local languages not supported Open

Area-Localization Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/platyPS#436 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2019
Merge-MarkdownHelp munges multiple syntax blocks together Open

Area-MergeMarkdown

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/platyPS#337 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2018
Need a solution to generate Provider topics Open

Idea-Helpv2 Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/platyPS#111 · Opened May 24, 2016

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