A department in our company wants a shared calendar where they can create reminders with the notification through mail function enabled.So a mail goes to the selected people at the time of the reminder.
I have set up a mail database where the users have rights to create calendar entries but the reminders are not sent. I also tried to create a person document for the shared calendar database and put the person document name as calendar owner. Unfortunetly no difference.
The notifications are in the $Alarms folder so they are created properly but not sent.
Guess it has something to do something with that the person who created the reminder is not the calendar owner.
Anyone have any ideas how i can get this working ?
Thanks
Regards
Hans
Subject: shared calendar with notification functionality
Notes has no built in capability to send e-mails at a set time.
You will need to code a scheduled agent running on your database to periodically look for events that need a reminder, and then send an e-mail to the appropriate people.
Note that this would have nothing to do with Alarms, which are something different. The Alarms function is built into the Notes Client, and only looks at the user’s Inbox database.(It would be nice if you could point it to secondary databases, but I don’t think that function exists.)
There is an alternative - as a user saves / changes an entry in your shared database, you could “copy” that to the users own mail database, and then that would trigger the alarms function.
Subject: RE: shared calendar with notification functionality
Thanks Graham for your posting.Like you said I will try to create a scheduled server agent that will look through the calendar events that have reminders configured and sends mail when the reminder time is reached. That “copy” method could also be something to look into.
Thanks again
Hans
Subject: shared calendar with notification functionality
I have created a scheduled agent on the server which sends mails to the selected people in the reminder when the reminder time has been reached.
Was also curious if anyone knows where the code that handles the Notes clients reminders is located. Is the code in the design of the mailfile or built into the Notes clients code ?
Best regards
Hans