Is there any facility for alarms or reminders in eGroupware?

Chris_G-6 2008-09-17 08:09:14 UTC #1

I’m just starting to use eGroupware as my personal contact list and
calendar, its major advantage for me is that it synchronises with my
new Nokia E71 “out of the box”.

However at the moment I can’t see any way to implement alarms or
reminders of events or jobs that need doing.

In particular I would like reminders for some quarterly jobs that I
have to do for my small business. Because they only recur every three
months it’s very easy to forget them. I don’t have my scheduling
application open all the time so just a marker on the date really
isn’t enough.

A ‘birthday’ type reminder would be fine, i.e. some sort of reminder
that appears a number of days before the event in question and repeats
until I mark it as done. For the quarterly jobs I could just have
four ‘birthdays’. Is there anything like this at all in eGroupware?

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constant 2008-09-17 20:45:26 UTC #2

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When you create, or edit an appointment, there’s an alarm tab where alarms can be set.

Two things need to be done in preparation. In admin, setup popups in Notification site configuration. In admin, go to Asynchronous timed services, and install crontab.

Then you should be good to go.
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Chris G-6:

I’m just starting to use eGroupware as my personal contact list and
calendar, its major advantage for me is that it synchronises with my
new Nokia E71 “out of the box”.

However at the moment I can’t see any way to implement alarms or
reminders of events or jobs that need doing.

In particular I would like reminders for some quarterly jobs that I
have to do for my small business. Because they only recur every three
months it’s very easy to forget them. I don’t have my scheduling
application open all the time so just a marker on the date really
isn’t enough.

A ‘birthday’ type reminder would be fine, i.e. some sort of reminder
that appears a number of days before the event in question and repeats
until I mark it as done. For the quarterly jobs I could just have
four ‘birthdays’. Is there anything like this at all in eGroupware?

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chrisisbd 2008-09-17 20:55:44 UTC #3

[quote=“constant”]
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When you create, or edit an appointment, there’s an alarm tab where alarms can be set.

Two things need to be done in preparation. In admin, setup popups in Notification site configuration. In admin, go to Asynchronous timed services, and install crontab.

Thanks, I’d found Asynchronous timed services, but I can’t find “popups in Notification site configuration”, where is this exactly?

constant 2008-09-17 21:05:14 UTC #4

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Forgotten premise - You must have EGW >= 1.5.

With notifications installed, it should have an item in Admin to edit the site configuration.
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Chris_G-6 2008-09-18 07:45:15 UTC #5

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Forgotten premise - You must have EGW >= 1.5.

Should be OK, I’m using the 1.6rc1 version.

With notifications installed, it should have an item in Admin to edit the
site configuration.
.

OK, thanks, I’ll take a look. The whole system seems to have gone
AWOL at the moment though and I’m not at home so I can’t do anything
about it.

.
When you create, or edit an appointment, there’s an alarm tab where alarms
can be set.

Two things need to be done in preparation. In admin, setup popups in
Notification site configuration. In admin, go to Asynchronous timed
services, and install crontab.

Thanks, I’d found Asynchronous timed services, but I can’t find “popups in
Notification site configuration”, where is this exactly?

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Chris_G-6 2008-09-18 11:10:14 UTC #6

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Forgotten premise - You must have EGW >= 1.5.

Should be OK, I’m using the 1.6rc1 version.

1.6.pre1 actually, but >1.5.

With notifications installed, it should have an item in Admin to edit the
site configuration.
.

OK, thanks, I’ll take a look. The whole system seems to have gone
AWOL at the moment though and I’m not at home so I can’t do anything
about it.

I’ve got it back, DNS has gone AWOL, using the raw IP address works OK.

.
When you create, or edit an appointment, there’s an alarm tab where alarms
can be set.

Two things need to be done in preparation. In admin, setup popups in
Notification site configuration. In admin, go to Asynchronous timed
services, and install crontab.

I can’t see anywhere to “setup popups in Notification site
configuration”, under Admin I have:-

• Site configuration
• User accounts
• User groups
• Applications
• Global Categories
• Change main screen message
• View sessions
• View access log
• View error log
• Find and Register all Application Hooks
• Asynchronous timed services
• DB backup and restore
• PHP information
• Admin queue and history
• Remote administration instances

In Site configuration there’s nothing about popups or notification.
I’m running egroupware 1.6.pre1.

Ah, do I have to install something - i.e. notifications? I’ll have a
hunt around.

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Chris_G-6 2008-09-18 11:24:39 UTC #7

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When you create, or edit an appointment, there’s an alarm tab where alarms
can be set.

Two things need to be done in preparation. In admin, setup popups in
Notification site configuration. In admin, go to Asynchronous timed
services, and install crontab.

I can’t see anywhere to “setup popups in Notification site
configuration”, under Admin I have:-

OK, I seem to have found it, it’s in the Applications setup.

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