[Vtigercrm-developers] Vtiger Workflow Running In The Background

[Alan Lord]

On 18/12/12 03:52, Petar Dimov wrote:
>
> Just realized I can't really accomplish that with workflows. ( Set a
> condition if customer birthdate is today) to email them.
>
> Is there any non coding way to do this or I have to write a separate
> cron job for that?

I think you will really need to write a small cron job to do this. The 
Workflow tool is there to act on entities that have been triggered in 
some way; although I never really got the full scope of the "Until the 
first time the condition is true." trigger? What fires this one? Does it 
evaluate *all* entities in the workflow module?

Anyway, cron jobs aren't *that* hard to write; you'll need to do some 
date manipulation to get just the month and day fields for comparison, 
and probably use an email template handle to create and then fire off 
the message.

But of course there are plenty of vtiger experts out there who could 
help you if you need it I am sure ;-)


Cheers

Al

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