Alarm Notification/Second Alarm Was: [kronolith] Question AboutTheAlarm

Thomas Booms Thomas.Booms@booms-edv.de
Mon, 20 May 2002 13:10:27 +0200


Yes, this will be great, Jim!
And the faster it's available the better it is! :)

Thomas Booms

Jim Hale schrieb:

> I agree - I think Email would be the best way to go - with the option
> (when you create the event) for an alternate/additional Email
> address(es) to send the notification to. :)
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Booms [mailto:Thomas.Booms@booms-edv.de]
> > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:43 AM
> > To: Brandon Knitter
> > Cc: Jim Hale; Mailing List - Kronolith
> > Subject: Re: Alarm Notification/Second Alarm Was: [kronolith]
> > Question About TheAlarm
> >
> >
> > 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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