if you have a large number of users running this once a week might take a long time...
on app engine, use the app engine cron functionality to schedule a request once a week. i'd point that to an instance that can run for long time periods (these were called backends and then in a recent release of the GAE SDK they created a new way to configure these instance and called them by a new name) cfh On Thursday, August 15, 2013 7:06:12 AM UTC-7, jjg0 wrote: > > (Using google app engine if that matters) > > I have a table that I want to update on a weekly basis. Basically it's a > simple table of users with a date field that gets set to the last time they > did something and a field to indicate that they are active. I want to check > every Monday which users weren't active for the prior week and set them to > inactive. Is this possible? What would I use to do this so this check is > only done once every week. I could set this up to run every time someone > requests a page but that seems like a waste. I want this to somehow trigger > on its own. > > Thanks! > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
