Alarm Notification/Second Alarm Was: [kronolith] Question About TheAlarm

[Thomas Booms]

Hello Jim,
hello list,

Brandon Knitter schrieb:

> > How does the alarm notify you about an upcoming event? I did a test
> > event with a 5 minute alarm but nothing happened. Is it supposed to send
> > out an email? Make a ding? Do you have to be inside Horde for it to
> > work?
>
> I think there was a thread a few weeks ago about this, and it turns out that
> there really is nothing.  I wrote a "hacked" perl script which goes directly to
> the DB and get's out the events and figures out what to notify on.  I can try to
> translate this to PHP, but I'm fairly rusty on that sort of thing.
>
> If people want the "alarming" type thing, I would probably ask for a couple of
> db changes before I did it, I was thinking of an alarm timestamp or boolean
> thingy letting you know it was alarmed.  This is because I run a cron job every
> 5 minutes to look for upcoming alarms in the next 10 mintues.  I specifically
> look 10 minutes ahead to compensate for load and such that might cause the cron
> job to be slow.  After that, I "mark" the alarm at being notified, that way I
> know not to notify again is I cause it in the next 5 minute run.
>
> I would say it's not the mopst efficient thing to do, but it works for me! :)
> Incidentally, I email myself the alarm and notification, which Blackebrry's me
> (pages me) with the info, that way I'm notified, AND I have all the info with me! :)
>
> Lastly, is there any interest from anyone but me for an additional alarm, it's a
> Yahoo Calendar feature that I found cool before cause you could be notified 2
> hours before a meeting so you knew to get prepared, and then say another one at
> 15 minutes before a meeting so you knew to get your butt over there.  Let me
> know if that'd be useful for some of you.

Yes, I want the alarming thing via (best) email. And I believe it's not only me who
wants that. For which other reason is the alarming function in the calender shown? Only
for using it i think. And calendars need this feature. No question for me.

Can you tell me the time when we can see a first solve? 1 week, 1 month...? I ask,
because I have several people on my server who are testing and reporting me problems and
ideas about all the nice horde modules which are installed on my machine.

BTW: I use horde since a few weeks and from all the projecs I saw til now, horde is the
best of all! :)

Very, very good work!

Thomas

>
>
> Take care,
> bk
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