Writing a Cron Job for Reminders

[vanipriya]

Hi,
I would like users to receive a reminder 1 week, 2 days and 1 day before any of their tasks,calls, meetings are due.

Probably a consolidated list that says :
These tasks are due today :
a,b,c
These tasks are due tomorrow :
x,y,z
These tasks are due this week
p,q,r


I think this has to be done using a cron job thats scheduled to run everyday. I'm totally new to writing scripts of such kind. Can somebody give some tips as to how such a cron job is written?

Thanks

[davidboris]

Hi,

You will need to create a script which runs everyday by scheduler.

If you script name is myscript.php and lies into mymodule, in admin > Schedulers > Create Scheduler
in Job you should write http://yourdomain.com/index.php?modu...ction=myscript

[vanipriya]

Thanks. I guessed as much.
My probs is I've never written such scripts before. Is there any pointer to write such a script for SugarCRM ? I would like to know what functions to use in one such.

[davidboris]

Hi,

You can build your own set of functions in your own script! It will be independent.
So you can play with that, the way you want.

[vanipriya]

Ok Let me rephrase my question.

Is there some kind of guide, which tells what files to include within the function in order to get the right details?
I perfectly know the algorithm.. but Im still not that experienced in writing a function as good on my own.. any pointers to do this.. Any help to go about this is appreciated ...

Thanks in advance..