you're missing a BIIIIG point. Either you need to queue a task as a result of some user action (i.e. send a reminder, calculate/aggregate/refresh some data, etc) --> usually it's a one-time-only activity, in which case, the following "pattern" applies #models\scheduler.py from gluon.scheduler import Scheduler
def demo1(): db.asdf.insert(asdf = 'asdf') db.commit() mysched = Scheduler(db, tasks = dict(demo1 = demo1) ) #controllers\a_controller.py def an_action(): ...... #we need to schedule a background task mysched.queue_task('demo1') Or you need a single task that repeats itself every once in a while (usually repeating tasks are "cron-like" and "maintenance-related"). In that case, you define the scheduler in models\scheduler.py, and you (as the admin-developer-god of the web application) queue a task in appadmin. Or you prepare a controller just for the occasion, that can only be accessed by you and run once (so you get only a SINGLE record in the scheduler_task table). Now, back to your goal. If you want a single record to be added to the asdf table every day, you need a SINGLE task that has repeats --> 0 period --> 60*60*24 prevent_drift --> True (if you care for "at the same time every day") -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.