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I would like to have the development director and CEO receive an email anytime we enter a contribution over $1,000. I am thinking that I can create a scheduled job for this but am not sure how. Or is this something that I need to write my own code for? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Another approach (that we use successfully at CiviCRM) is to use CiviReport since for any report, you can choose for it to be emailed to a set of people on a regular basis.

Steps would be

1) create a report of all donations over $1000 in the last 24 hours / 7 days, etc.
2) add the person that you want to be sent the report as a recipient
3) create a cron job that is run every day / week (depending on 1))

Setting up a cron job can be fiddly, depending on your server environment - if you aren't sure how to do it, you should ask your hosting company / sys admin. In our case it looks something like this:

0 9 * * 1   www-data php /var/www/civicrm-website-org/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cli.php -u cron -p xxx -s www.example.org -e Job -a mail_report --instanceId=38 --format=print

You can find more general info on scheduled jobs here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC41/Managing+Scheduled+Jobs