[Erp5-dev] Scheduling a a script and some more queries

[Bartek Gorny]

2008/12/27 Danny Admin <dannywork1 at hotmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your valuable answer.
>
> I have tried to search about portal_alarm but i did not find any material.
>
> Can you give me some material/links about how to use portal_alarm.

You're right, it needs a how-to. I think I'll write something soon,
but generally alarms are pretty straightorward - you create an alam,
set periodicity, type in a name of the script you want to run, tick
the "active" checkbox and this is it. The script will be run in the
context of the alarm. If you install erp5_forge bt5 you'll see a
working example - this bt5 installs an "open bugs alarm".

> Some more queries:
> -------------------
> 1. Can i use portal_activities for this? If yes then how i start an activity
> that will run at a particular time each day?

You can't. Portal activities serve an entirely different purpose.

> 2. I want to make a search functionality for my module. Let say i have a
> search form, from which user can enter different fields of an object and
> enter it, I have to search all the objects matching entered fields and show
> them in a list. Now how i can implement this functionality?

Again, the best way is to look at a working example - e.g.
erp5_accounting has a very nice search in accounting_module. You have
to create a form for search parameters and add an action to the
module's portal type. The action category should be object_search.
This is pretty much it.

> 3. In Person object Details tab when i browse and select png image from my
> hard disk and save the person object, the image is not shown. When i see the
> logtail of zope it says "OSError: [Error 2] No such file or directory" at
> last log line. Can any one help in this regard?
>
> 4. How can i set an Organisation object in Default Site Preferences?

What do you mean? If you mean accounting preferences, then you have to
create some categories under "group" base category and choose a group
for your organisation. Then in preferences you select a group first,
and then the organisation dropdown is filled with organisation from
that group.

Bartek

> Thanks & Regards
> Danny
>
>> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:00:24 +0100
>> From: jp at nexedi.com
>> To: erp5-dev at erp5.org
>> Subject: Re: [Erp5-dev] Scheduling a a script
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You can use alarms (portal_alarms).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> JPS.
>>
>> Danny Admin a écrit :
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Can anyone tell me how can i schedule a script to run at a particular
>> > time? Also run a script periodically at some interval say 5 seconds ?
>> >
>> > Thanks & Regards
>> > Danny
>> >
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