If you have a start date you could: - loop over the date from start date to now, doing a dateadd 1 day each iteration - every time the date hits sunday, add 1 to a counter - at the end, check if the counter is even or odd, and run scheduled task accordingly.
-- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:08 AM Subject: Bi-weekly scheduled task. >I have a task that needs to run every other Thursday. Since the scheduled >task administrator does not have bi-weekly option, I'm expecting I will run >it every week and then have logic on the page determine if this is an "on" >week or an "off" week. > > My question is how you all would tackle this. I have a couple different > ideas, and I am having a hard time settling on one I like. > > Idea 1: A flag that flips back and forth, but will need some method to > persist the flag through system restarts and such. Seems a bit overkill > to create a database or file just to store single binary 0|1 value. > > Idea 2: Process the date to determine if the task should run this week, > but how? > > Idea 2a: Could I use the week() function? But I don't think the task > will always run on even or odd weeks every year, would it? > > But if not this, what characteristic of a date would determine which week > to run the code. I have a 'start' date if that helps. > > > -------------- > Ian Skinner > Web Programmer > BloodSource > www.BloodSource.org > Sacramento, CA > > --------- > | 1 | | > --------- Binary Soduko > | | | > --------- > > "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" > - Cynthia Dunning > > Confidentiality Notice: This message including any > attachments is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender and > delete any copies of this message. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268078 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
