Receive-Job has different output than a direct command

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I've been using this command in my script

$jira = Get-JiraIssue -Query $jiraQuery -Credential $jiraCred | Select-Object Assignee,customfield

Which results in an array as such:

Assignee           customfield
----                 ----
Unassigned         D00525FFKSAN0
first.last       1FLSALF05

However, if I run the same command in Start-Job scriptblock:

Start-Job -Name Jira -ScriptBlock {param($jiraQuery,$jiraCred) Get-JiraIssue -Query $jiraQuery -Credential $jiraCred | Select-Object Assignee,customfield} -ArgumentList $jiraQuery, $jiraCred

Receive-Job -Name JIra -Keep

The results end up being like:

Assignee          : Unassigned
customfield          : ASLFDSGLDMF06
RunspaceId          : a670925b-537a-4d54-adce-89c693f3fa9d 
--------    
Assignee          : @{TimeZone=America/Los_Angeles; Key=JIRAUSER0000; AvatarUrl=; Groups=; Active=True; AccountId=; DisplayName=First Last; EmailAddress=first.last@jira.com; Locale=; RestUrl=https://jira.com/rest/api/2/user?username=first.last; Name=first.last}
customfield          : ASLFDSGLDMF05
RunspaceId          : a670925b-537a-4d54-adce-89c693f3fa10d

I've tried using -ExpandProperty on the job results, but then the Assignee property takes over and results in:

Name                 DisplayName                          Active
----                 -----------                          ------
first.last           First Last                           Yes
first.last2          First Last 2                           Yes
first.last3          First Last 3                           Yes

What's happening here? I can't seem to figure out how to get the same results I'm getting by running the command directly, outside of Start-Job

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1 Answers

Your Get-JiraIssue has a custom formatting view which is lost during serialization as Daniel states in his on point comment.

To get around this, and assuming you're looking for the .Name property of the nested object in the Assignee property here is how you can recreate the object:

$job = Start-Job -Name Jira -ScriptBlock {
    param($jiraQuery, $jiraCred)

    Get-JiraIssue -Query $jiraQuery -Credential $jiraCred
} -ArgumentList $jiraQuery, $jiraCred

Receive-Job $job -Keep | ForEach-Object {
    [pscustomobject]@{
        Assignee    = ($_.Assignee, $_.Assignee.Name)[[bool] $_.Assignee.Name]
        customfield = $_.customfield
    }
}
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