Re: Date Reminders in Silva

Greetings Timo,

I would consider using SilvaNews instead of plain Silva Documents.  Each 
seminar would be an Agenda Item (which has a start and end time, and a 
publication time), and you can use an agenda viewer to display the seminars.

Since SilvaNews Agenda Items have a start date and time, you can code 
something up easily to retrieve the next seminar and email the members of the 
institute (which is probably a mailing list?).  You could schedule this using 
cron or something.

The stock agenda viewer doesn't display agenda items like your page.  You 
could, however, code up a new viewer that mimics the page you have.

HTH,
Andy

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 08:22, Timo Schuerg wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On our site we have one page where the dates for the next seminars
> are listed. So far this is done with an ordinary Silva Document
> edited with Kupu. The next date simply is added at the bottom of the
> page. In case you want to have a look it's
>
> http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/theory/seminar/group_seminar
>
> We now would like to add some functionality to this page. 20 Minutes
> before the seminar starts there always is a reminder mail sent out to
> every member of the institute. This is done by hand by the person in
> charge of this page. This of course does not work very reliably,
> since sometimes the person in charge is on vacation and so on.
>
> Before I start writing up something myself that automatically sends
> such a mail containing the subject and the speaker 20 minutes before
> the date I wanted to ask whether something similiar exists already.
> Also any hints as how to accomplish this quickly would be very much
> appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Timo
>
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