Programmatically Scheduling (Nothing to do with CFSCHEDULE)

[webmigit]

I need to allow users to schedule activity on a certain day.. I will of course use CFSCHEDULE to handle tha automated part.. my question is about how I should set this up.

All tasks are going to be the same.. an email will be sent.. but I need to let the user specify basically anything... What date its to be sent on, specify a date range... or specify by day, or just one time, or all of that stuff..

Is it better to setup scripts to hand it off to CFSCHEDULE or is it better to actually let the user set up scheduled tasks? There could be a whole lot of tasks..

Thoughts here guys?

Tony

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[TruthInSatire]

Who are ya?

you could copy the form in the CF administrator in the schedule settings. That would cover your options. If it were me I'd do some script formatting of the data and then do a cfcatch and cftry. if they manage to put in good data set the schedule with <cfschedule> if not have it email you the data and enter it manualy. Come to thtink of it i'd probably have it email me anyway just to see the data compaired to the scheduled task.

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[webmigit]

Haha...

I was just curious on whether you guys thought a direct interface to cfschedule would be an alright idea..

I mean, re-inventing the wheel just to work with the wheel is not a good idea.. but when you've got to idiot-proof something (and trust me, I've got to idiot-proof this).. sometimes re-inventing the wheel is the way to go..

Tony

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[TruthInSatire]

I know what you mean that's why I suggested the catch try manual option.

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