[Vtigercrm-developers] Vtiger Workflow Running In The Background

[Alan Lord]

On 18/12/12 14:03, Petar Dimov wrote:
>
> 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 agree, I have had similar requirements for a "cron-based" workflow 
trigger myself.

But unless vtiger CRM can provide a configurable frequency trigger per 
workflow then it won't really work (you only want it to run once per day 
for example).

For your specific case the field formula functions are not comprehensive 
enough either. I don't think there is an easy way to parse the field 
function "get_date('today')" and remove the year so you can compare it 
with a date field that you must also remove the year part from the date.

Cheers

Al

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