Re: Advanced Job Scheduler

Actually, John, the frequency is up to you as to how often you pull from
the Google Calendar (as well as which calendar).

With each Google account you can set up a bunch of different calendars, so
we set different ones up for each use (ie, job scheduling, etc).

Pushing can be done from the IBM i app or any other device.

Yes, you can use the email "reminder" facilities as well. That's part of
the application when you're pushing an event from the IBM i with this
utility.

Here's a list of the commands and ILE interfaces available:
http://docs.bvstools.com/home/greentools-for-google-apps/docs/addon-library/g4ggcal

We created it a few years ago and have been using it ever since for a few
jobs. One of them is to send reminders to people that download trials.
We add a calendar event for 10 or 15 days in the future to send them an
email asking how the trial is going.

We have it documented here:
http://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=64

Another is when posts are made on FieldExit.com we log them. We documented
that here:
http://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=19

At the FieldExit.com home page there is a Google Calendar you can view
(agenda mode works best) to see the activity on the site.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:33 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We use or Google Calendar Addon for our G4G software to download items
daily and set them up to run. How we use it really very simplistic
compared to how involved it could be.

It sounds like you have the i pull stuff from Google Calendar once a
day (or perhaps some multiple but fixed number of times per day). So
does this mean you can't use this facility to schedule something to
run "5 minutes from now"?

I do like the concept of leveraging Google Calendar. It's certainly
much more capable than the standard scheduler's "calendar", and I
agree it's pretty user friendly, with plenty of ways to get stuff in
there.

Would making use of its e-mail alerts so that it asynchronously pushes
to the i be too fragile? Or maybe setting up alerts would uglify the
calendar entry user interface (if for no other reason than it may be
an extra step versus what is required now)?

John Y.
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