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| Project: | Rules |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Scheduler |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
Hi,
Thanks for a great module!
I'm hoping to use Rules to periodically (e.g. every day at midnight or 6pm or whatever time) evaluate a condition (most likely expressed through my own custom PHP code) and when true, have the configured action(s) executed.
Is there a way to do this using Rules + Rules Scheduler?
I guess a possible implementation of this would be via some special action that re-schedules the triggered rule that is part of, for a later time, e.g. 24 hours into the future?
But I'm not sure if I can do this with Rules or how...
Another difference compared to a normal triggered rule would be, I think, that in this case there isn't a normal event as such triggering the process, other than "it is now time (e.g. 6pm)" to evaluate the condition.
Thanks for your time!
Comments
#1
>Rules + Rules Scheduler
Yep it is. In the scheduled rule set, just configure an action that schedules the set again, e.g. 1 day later. So it's getting scheduled each day. Of course only let this action fire, when you want to continue scheduling this set.
#2
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
#3
I could really use some help with this. Here's what I need to do: Every year after a user creates a node he or she will receive an email. I managed to set this up now, but it only fires once. How can I reschedule this?
For testing purposes (since I don't wanna wait a whole year to try this out ;)) I am using this as my scheduled evaluation date:
<?php echo time() + 60 * 1; ?>I also tried to create a rule set without arguments so I can use the manual scheduling at admin/rules/rule_sets/scheduling because I read somewhere that those automatically reschedule themselves. This works a couple of times and then it's gone.
The last thing I tried was to schedule within the rule of my rule set and then use a rule to schedule the rule set. That only gives me the email once though.
Is what I'm trying to do possible at all?
#4
There is a tutorial for re-scheduling and scheduling loops: http://drupal.org/node/520016
#5
I went through that but in the tutorial they publish and unpublish a node and that's how the loop works (at least that's how I understood it). I don't do that so I have nothing to do my action against. A friend recommended using flag module, that way I could use a similar way described in the tutorial. I thought somebody here would have an idea that I didn't think of.
#6
You simply schedule the set again from a rule inside the set.
#7
"simply" is good :)
I received some help from a friend. Here's an export of my solution for others who need this: http://pastebin.com/y2e1ZMr6 I kept it very general so people can just import it and change it to meet their needs.