• From: Los Angeles, CA
  • Registered: 2018-05-04
  • Posts: 57

Topic: Event Notification

I am wondering if it is possible to receive an email or SMS notification x minutes or x hours on the day the event or to do item occurs.  I have looked through the documentation and if it is possible, I missed it. Perhaps it is not possible?  I know you can receive notification at the time an event is posted or x number of days before the event.

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  • From: DK
  • Registered: 2018-03-02
  • Posts: 165

Re: Event Notification

This is not possible today. It would require a very short interval for the cronjob, and not all providers allows this.

If a SMS would be fine, then you could post a suggestion that there could be a minutes setting for the SMS. Then, when the cronjob that runs at night meet an event  that is scheduled at the same day and marked for SMS - then there is sent an SMS with a specified time for sending ( xx minutes before the event takes place ) . Then the SMS provider will take over and the provider will send the SMS at the specified time. This way you could have a reminder close to the time for the event.

Or maybe a special cronjob that should run very very often and look for events to be sent as reminders ( sms and/or  mail). There should be some logic that checks that an event is sent close to the start-time for the event - and only once.

I think you should post a suggestion for this, as it could be a useful feature. As I remember it has been discussed before, but I think it is a tricky one, and it should not bring problems in the existing mail/sms functions.
Make a suggestion and then it could be discussed -  I think.

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