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Anonymous
July 22, 2009
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Running Functions At Certain Times

  • July 22, 2009
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I have some functions that I want to run automatically at a certain time. For example say every morning at 6:00AM i want one of my CF functions to run that sends an email out to everyone as a reminder.

Right now the only way I see to do this is to have someone visit the website, it then looks if it send the email that day or not, if not it sends it. Is there a way to do this where I don't have to have someone access the website and it was automatic. For example I want it to runand send emails today automatically just in case no one ever goes to the website today.

Thanks

Todd Warne

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Correct answer ilssac

Ah, cfsearching beat me to the easy answer.

Yes ColdFusion has a function called "Scheduled Tasks" that can be set up in the administrator, or by the schedule task tag in the latest versions, to be run on a schedule, imagine that.

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Inspiring
July 22, 2009

You can place the code to execute in a cfm script. Then run the script as a scheduled task. You can create scheduled tasks via the CF Administrator, or using cfschedule. See the documentation for more details.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/Tags_r-s_11.html


ilssac
ilssacCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 22, 2009

Ah, cfsearching beat me to the easy answer.

Yes ColdFusion has a function called "Scheduled Tasks" that can be set up in the administrator, or by the schedule task tag in the latest versions, to be run on a schedule, imagine that.

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