Reminder/Alarm Notification

Thursday 11 November 2010 3:42:50 am

Hi,

I need to create a custom notification, which will send a reminder before the end date of a task/event.

I need to do this so that it will work with task module in ezteamroom extension.

My plan was:
1). Create a custom reminder notification event. (copy of publishNotificationEvent)
2). Create a custom reminder notification event handler. (copy of pubilshNotificationHandler)
3). When a task is created a reminder notification would be created (added to the database) with reminder send_date set to 7 days before the end_date of the task.
4). The reminder notification handler would the process the notification on the given send_date.

I have managed to do 1, 2, 3 and part of the 4 above but cannot process the notifications in database. I can see the notifications are present in the database but cannot understand how to process them using the handler.

Can someone advice me how I can get this to work or whether my approach is correct. Alternatively, someone may have created this feature already.

I have searched on the community portal but really surprised to find there is not a lot of information or interest in having the facility to receive reminder notification of tasks/meetings/events prior to the end date.

Maybe the feature already exists in ezpublish but I have failed to identify it.

I would really appreciate some help on this.

regards
Kunal

Monday 15 November 2010 2:26:25 pm

Hi Robin,

I have already looked the document you suggested and unfortunately it doesn't really help. The documentation simply describes how to run the cronjobs and studying the cronjobs/notification.php and runcronjobs.php also just executes the events and event handlers.

After studying the above scripts (the best I could), I managed to add the event in the database with a specific send_date. But my handler does not seem to want to process these events.

There is lack of information on how to create custom handlers to process events in various ways (specific send_date). The handler I am using is a copy of the publishNotificationEventHandler. Which processes events of newly published objects. This may be the reason why it is not processing events with a send_date.

If only there was some documentation/examples of how to process events with a specific send_date. I think that would help.

I have run out of ideas now and really tempted to just create a php script outside of ezpublish and process my events in the database. But I would much rather use ezpublish to do this.

regards
Kunal