[Vtigercrm-developers] Vtiger Workflow Running In The Background

[Petar Dimov]

Alan,

Until the first time the condition is true executes whatever worklfow you
create only once and then it disables it.

That's it.

My problem with writing the cronjob is that I want to be able to pull a
specific email template and pick variables and that will be time-consuming.

I'd rather have a workflow that do that. It already runs in the background
every 3 minutes for me.

I don't understand why it can't pick up these things.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Best Regards,

Petar Dimov
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