Question

I would like to add an event time and then be able to set alarms to go off at a time before that (and send, presumably, and email alert). Is this possible?

Environment

-- KenMankoff - 18 Dec 2003

Answer

No.

Of course you could write code to integrate TWiki with a toolkit that does such things but I am fairly sure this is new functionality for TWiki.

-- MartinCleaver - 21 Dec 2003

Yes I am planning on writing code to do this if it does not already exist. Our company uses TWiki to discuss projects with deadlines and it makes sense for TWiki to remind us of said deadlines.

Yes I would use an external toolkit. Either at or cron. (Our TWiki server is not Windows based).

I guess the next question is: Is there interest in this by other people. If no then I will hack it out so it works for us using our server. If yes then I will take the time to code a correct plugin.

-- KenMankoff - 22 Dec 2003

It's possible you could do this using the notification feature of ActionTrackerPlugin. In any case, I'd be very interested in any solution you come up with. It'd be a great feature!

-- LynnwoodBrown - 23 Dec 2003

Yeah that appears to work. I don't have an installation of TWiki yet so I can't test it but the documentation looks good. I guess the one problem is the alarms get set up once and are then system wide. Example is that you will always get alarms 1 day, 1 hour, whatever for every event. It would be nice to be able to specify this on a per-event basis, which would mean moving the alarm stuff from cron into the editable TWiki page. Well I will try this system as-is once we get it installed and post back with any results, and add any functionality we need.

-- KenMankoff - 26 Dec 2003

Ken, this request (cron configration from a TWiki page) has been asked for before. It's on the list "to do"!

-- CrawfordCurrie - 10 Feb 2004