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leopitt

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Email notification of due Activites
March 15, 2010, 06:52:08 am
When I create an activity, the person to whom it is assigned gets sent an email notification.

Is there also a way to have the assignee receive an email reminder when the activity is due?

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Re: Email notification of due Activites
March 15, 2010, 08:13:41 am

This would be a great community contribution. I suspect you will need a cron script to check which activities are due and send an email. Please ping us on IRC if you / your developer need help getting started

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leopitt

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Re: Email notification of due Activites
March 16, 2010, 03:39:50 am
I could certainly try and develop this. I have experience developing Drupal modules.

I don't however have experience using IRC - please could you advise on how to get in touch with you?

leopitt

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Re: Email notification of due Activites
March 16, 2010, 04:02:31 am
Okay, I spotted the massive "IRC" button at the top of the page, installed Pidgin and joined the #civicrm chatroom - no lobo in there at the moment through.
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Re: Email notification of due Activites
March 17, 2010, 08:35:18 am
Visited IRC civicrm channel, received a deafening silence... anyone want to provide a pointer on where to start with building this: Salient hooks, modules which provide similar kind of functionality?

Thanks

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Re: Email notification of due Activites
March 17, 2010, 09:41:21 am

leopitt:

would help if you remain on IRC for a little more than a minute. While we are on it a fair amount, we are not on it ALL the time :P

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have a look at the bin folder
March 17, 2010, 11:13:07 am
Hi,

You have several cron tasks in the bin folder, you could start using that on how to wrap calls and what to call to init the environment.

You can use the civicrm APIs to fetch the due activities and send an email for each of them. The trick is probably to avoid sending the same reminder endlessly. If you use the civi mail sending facility (you should), it automatically logs the reminders sent, so you can probably easily see which ones you have already sent.

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Re: Email notification of due Activites
June 29, 2010, 11:42:27 am
Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.. Is there not a CiviCRM API documentation site about, a bit like the Drupal API sites? It would be enormously useful in figuring out where to start.

Don, to be fair I did hang around the channel for a while and have revisited more than once since - always to the same response! I actually started to wander if there was something wrong with my software. But hey ho, I understand people have jobs to do (just like me), but still a simple "hey pal no one's listening" would have been useful!
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