[Tiki-devel] Have Tiki to do (ListExecute) something when something doesn't exist (no trackerItem today)

Hello Bernard’s questions fan ! 🤗

It would be nice to have something like : If no item is found, send a notification


As usual (at least for me) a real case is always the best.

In a Tiki, a user must create a daily report.
Everyday a trackerItem must be created with some values before the user leaves the office.
If no trackeritem is created before 18:00 (he leaves the office at 19:00) send to this user a reminder.


I can imagine a solution using a tracker ListExecute and with some filters we can return the tracker, the trackeritem and today’s the date. (time using the “gap” parameter ?)

But then what ?
How I can use "0 items found" to do something like send a notification : “Please, don’t forget to send the report today”.

Is it “safe” enough to use the “0 items found” output ? (It may happen for many reasons) so at least we should have somewhere a flag, notification sent. (But where as the item has not been created).

Then, we need to think of non-working day (the office is working from Monday to Friday) where we shouldn’t send a notification.

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Thinking out loud while typing. May be be the solution is the other way around.💡

I think we can’t create an item with the plugin listExecute but we can duplicate.
So the listExecute duplicate automatically an item (a blank report) every day. (If not a blank report we need to empty the values, still doable)
This item is now owned (user selector) by the "system admin" (the lastmodifby). We add an extra field has a flag, “notification was sent”.

Now the task is the following:
Find all items for today (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) with the "system admin” as lastmodifby with the “notification was sent” = n
That is should work.

Then we can: send the notification and change the field : “notification was sent” = n

This require 2 ListExecute and is not really straightforward, may be fragile but...

Thought ?
Bernard



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