[Solved] Automatic email for tasks

Posted by mweber on November 7, 2012 at 5:05pm

Hi,
I have a content type with a field for a deadline (date).
I want to send an email to me one day before this deadline is reached.
Do you know, if this is possible and with which modules I could do this?
I installed Rules, but can't find an option to link the action with a field content.
Thanks for your help

Comments

Rules Scheduler

Posted by spovlot on November 7, 2012 at 5:21pm

You can use Rules to perform this task. You will first need to create a Rule component that accepts a Node as a parameter. In the component, you can add an action to send an email.

Then you can create a regular reaction rule with the event "After saving new content". You can add an action to "Schedule component evaluation" with your email rule component using your deadline field (-1 day) as the schedule date.

I would suggest the tutorials at http://nodeone.se/en/learn-the-rules-framework .

Date Reminder?

Posted by dwillcox on November 8, 2012 at 1:31am

While it's not quite the intended use case, Date Reminder might do it for you.

D6 only, so far, I'm afraid. D7 version is in the works, but it's slow going.

This guy has 3 tutorials for

Posted by Krythis on November 8, 2012 at 2:23am

This guy has 3 tutorials for Rules that I just watched. First one is on sending email and the third is about scheduler. I haven't watched the third as I'm not interested in scheduler at this time.

http://youtu.be/OgRKLXRbPX8

Thanks

Posted by mweber on November 8, 2012 at 9:05pm

Thanks for your quick answers.
I'll watch the tutorials on nodeone and hope to be able to solve it then.

It works fine, thanks.

Posted by mweber on November 20, 2012 at 7:47pm

It works fine, thanks.