scheduler....

Classic Servoy
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Has anyone already done this?..

I have an Activities table, with a scheduled start timestamp and status. My client has asked me to add pop-up reminders.

This seemed like it’d be pretty straightforward using the scheduler plugin, but I’m looking at the various parameters and feeling a bit overwhelmed.

I’m envisioning that I’ll need an onDataChange that will create a job whenever the scheduled timestamp, or reminder checkbox, or lead time are edited. I can handle all that. Once I have a time that I want a reminder, and a method to show that reminder, what’s the syntax to set it off?

Also, will a job run for any user, the current user, etc? I’d only want the assigned user to get the reminder…

I know this is a bit open-ended, but it just seems like I can’t be the first person to have done this in Servoy, and I could use a bit of a jump-start. :-D

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Yes, I am doing this too:

I have just one scheduler that checks every minute by a search
It searches the todo’s and appointments that are overdated.

If the search is empty, nothing happens, If the search contains data, a small popup appears.

simple as that

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So does that just run on the Server, or on every client?

Running every minute would seem like excessive overhead for every client to sit through, wouldn’t it?

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always on the client!

It does not have any overhead!

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OK, I can take that on faith for the moment… ;-)

So they don’t get a screen flicker, or a slowdown, or anything? If nothing’s found, nothing happens?

Would you have just a sample command to run a method once a minute? I’m having trouble following the sample in the docs. I end up with errors, but rather than fix one dumb mistake after another, if I had a good command, and could butcher it one command at a time… :-D