SchedulerContrib Contrib Package

The SchedulerContrib implements the ideas contained in TWiki:Codev.CronCentre.

It makes it possible to control notification schedules from a TWiki page.

The basic idea is to run a single cron at regular intervals that would invoke a script in the bin directory. This cron program then run continually, waiting to process the next event.

Events are listed on a TWiki page containing cron schedule information and the names of pages containing notification information.

For example, our cron could be:

* * * * * * cd /hugedisk/twiki/bin && ./cron ../data/MyWeb/CronSchedule

The cron schedule page would contain something like this:

This is based on http://search.cpan.org/~roland/Schedule-Cron-0.9/Cron.pm

Summary of Contents

Detailed Documentation

Settings

Settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, e.g. %SCHEDULERCONTRIB_STUB%

• One line description:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Add short description here of your SchedulerContrib contrib

• Name of the perl package
  • Set STUB = %$STUB%

Installation Instructions

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip SchedulerContrib.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:

• Run SchedulerContrib_installer.pl to automatically check and install other modules that this module depends on. You can also do this step manually. Dependencies: %$DEPENDENCIES%

• Test if the installation was successful:
  • enter sample here
  • see also Sandbox.PluginTestSchedulerContrib?

Contrib Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences

-- TWiki:Main/twiki4plug - 08 Jan 2009