[development] module to trigger an action/callback based on a date field ?

António P. P. Almeida appa at perusio.net
Thu Nov 25 15:24:48 UTC 2010


On 25 Nov 2010 15h08 WET, greenman at the-organization.com wrote:

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> Hi Folks
>
> I am looking to trigger an event a specified time period before or
> after the value in a date field. I can't quite believe that there is
> no existing trigger system for this, but I have not been able to
> find something.
>
> My basic use case is event reminders:
> 2 weeks before an event, send an email
> 3 days before, send a reminder
> 2 days after an event, send a request for feedback
>
> I don't see this as complex to build, but I would prefer to build on
> something shared.
>
> Does anyone know of a module to handle this ?

Yes. Rules.

http://drupal.org/project/rules

--- appa



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