Invoking functions from nested modules in a script module do not always trigger a module to autoload

Question

If I create a manifest module with nested modules, exported functions from all nested modules after the first do not appear in the list of available commands and don\'t trigger

Answer 1

I had this line in my .psd1 file

FunctionsToExport = 'FuncFromMainPsm1 FuncFromSecondPsm1'

which was what I inferred from the line generated by Powershell Tools for Visual Studio:

# Functions to export from this module
FunctionsToExport = '*'

This caused my Get-Module -ListAvailable to show what looked like the right thing

Script     1.0        MyMModule                  FuncFromMainPsm1 FuncFromSecondPsm1

But when I called FuncFromSecondPsm1 I'd get "The term 'FuncFromSecondPsm1' is not recognized...".

So I changed my export line to

FunctionsToExport = @('FuncFromMainPsm1', 'FuncFromSecondPsm1')

And now it all works. I can call both functions after my module loads, whether via autoload or Import-Module.

I have tried this with and without both ModuleList and FileList set. They make no difference.