Creating Sopranos Family Tree Using Powershell

Install-Module PSWriteHTML



$Family=@(“Junior Soprano”,”Boss”,”Tony”,”Underboss”,”Sylvio”,”consigliere”,”Pauli”,”Capo”,”Bacala”,”capo”,”Furio”,”Soldier”,”Eugene”,”Soldier”,”Christopher”,”Soldier”,”Vito”,”Soldier”,”mike”,”capo”)
$nameboss=”
$nameunderboss=”
$nameconsigliere=”
$namecapo=@()
$namesoldier=@()
$length=$Family.length

New-HTML -Online -FilePath $PSScriptRoot\MyDiagram.html {
New-HTMLDiagram {
New-DiagramOptionsLayout -HierarchicalEnabled $true
New-DiagramOptionsPhysics -Enabled $true -HierarchicalRepulsionAvoidOverlap 1 -HierarchicalRepulsionNodeDistance 100
$i=0
while ($i -lt $length) {

switch ($family[$i+1]){
“boss” {
New-DiagramNode -Label $family[$i] -level 0
$nameboss=$family[$i]
}
“underboss” {
New-DiagramNode -Label $family[$i] -level 1
$nameunderboss=$family[$i]
}
“consigliere” {
New-DiagramNode -Label $family[$i] -level 1
$nameconsigliere=$family[$i]
}
“capo” {
New-DiagramNode -Label $family[$i] -level 2
$namecapo=$namecapo+$family[$i]
}
“soldier” {
New-DiagramNode -Label $family[$i] -level 3
$namesoldier=$namesoldier+$family[$i]
}
} #endof switch

$i=$i+2
} #endoof while

New-DiagramLink -From $nameunderboss -To $nameboss -ArrowsToEnabled
New-DiagramLink -From $nameconsigliere -To $nameunderboss -ArrowsToEnabled
$namecapo | foreach { New-DiagramLink -From $_ -To $nameunderboss -ArrowsToEnabled}
$namesoldier | foreach {
$lengthCapo=$namecapo.length
$capoDestinationIndex=get-random -minimum 0 -maximum $lengthCapo
New-DiagramLink -From $_ -To $namecapo[$capoDestinationIndex] -ArrowsToEnabled
}

}

} -ShowHTML