Background
Sitecore's Publishing Service only allows you to see a maximum of 10 items at a time within the Queued or Recent jobs reports within the dashboard.
This is not ideal if you need to see how many total items are in the queue, need to get an estimate of how long it will take to get your publish live or quite simply need to do any type of analysis or troubleshooting.
Usually, you will have to talk to a DevOps person who has access to your Sitecore Master database, and get them to write a somewhat complex SQL query against your Publishing_JobQueue table to get you the information that you need.
It is a bit complex due to the fact that most of the key information is stored in an XML field called "Options" within this particular table.
PowerShell For The Win
After spending a bit of time formulating a decent SQL query that would get the key information that we were after, I decided to take it one step further by incorporating it into a PowerShell script that could be generated on demand from within the Sitecore console, and also output a searchable and downloadable report.
A clear win for our Authoring Admins and DevOps teams!
I hope you find this script a useful add to your PowerShell toolbox.
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