Simpler than using backend!
I like it.

Thanks!!!

On Monday, March 5, 2012 4:18:41 PM UTC+1, Ian Marshall wrote:
>
> Of course, you could: 
>
>   ·  Set the ETA to be the earlier of the event date-time and 30 days 
> from now. 
>   ·  When the task is executed, test for whether the event is now or 
> in the past or not. 
>   ·  If now or in the past then 
>     ·  do your alert 
>      else 
>     ·  repeat from the first step above. 
>
>
> On Mar 5, 3:01 pm, ale <aleee...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > Good Idea! 
> > But I see on documentation that there is this limit: 
> > 
> > maximum countdown/ETA for a task                    30 days from the 
> > current date and time 
> > 
> > :-( 
> > 
> > But I can think about a beckend service that every day loop on my data e 
> > add task for event that are coming... 
> > Thanks a lot 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday, March 5, 2012 10:33:14 AM UTC+1, Ian Marshall wrote: 
> > 
> > > You could enqueue a task for each alert, which has as its ETA the 
> date- 
> > > time of the alert. 
> > 
> > > On Mar 4, 2:10 pm, ale <aleee...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > > > Hi everybody,Hello 
> > > > I'm writing an application that works as a calendar online (like 
> google 
> > > > calendar). 
> > > > My question is: if a user sets an event to an hour, and I wanted to 
> put 
> > > an 
> > > > alarm to alert him (eg an email), how can I do ? 
> > > > I save the date of the event in a table, then 
> > > > I put up a task that checks every minute, and if the corret hour and 
> > > send 
> > > > him the mail? There are better ways? 
> > 
> > > > thanks a lot! 
> > > > Alessandro

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