[Vtigercrm-developers] Vtiger Workflow Running In The Background

[Petar Dimov]

I have not been that deep in the workflow code. Thank you for sharing that
idea.

PD

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Adam Heinz <amh at metricwise.net> wrote:

> We have a workflow that emails customers the day before their appointment
> that has
>
> $wm = new VTWorkflowManager($adb);
> $wf = $wm->newWorkflow('Events');
> $wf->executionCondition = VTWorkflowManager::$ONCE;
> ...
> $wm->save($wf);
>
> $tm = new VTTaskManager($adb);
> $task = $tm->createTask('VTEmailTask', $wf->id);
> $task->trigger = array(
>  'days' => -1,
> 'field' => 'date_start',
> );
> ...
> $tm->saveTask($task);
>
> Based on this, it seems to me like it would be easy enough to email them
> once... so write a yearly cron job to reset the sent flag for
> all VTEmailTasks of that workflow?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Petar Dimov <phdimov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been tasked to make happen a simple feature with Vtiger.
>>
>> Send an email on our customer's birthdays.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Petar Dimov
>>
>>
>>
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-- 
Best Regards,

Petar Dimov
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