In our DokuWiki Installation (Release 2018-04-22b "Greebo"), users can subscribe to daily notification mails, which is a core feature of DokuWiki.
For those daily emails, we would like to make sure that they arrive at a certain time.
In the documentation, I did not find anything about a script that could be started (i.e. from a cronjob) to send out mails.
I set up a cronjob calling a freely accesible page in the wiki using curl (no login required for this page). This did not cause emails to be send.
Any hint on how to schedule daily emails to be send at a certain time would be helpful!
Update: I am aware of .../feed.php, which would theoretically allow to get information on wiki events using the RSS feed. This data could be used to send notification mails. However, the RSS feed would need to be generated for every user to respect access right. For this to work, some sort of user credentials - or a copy of the user's access rights - would need to be copied to a place outside of dokuwiki and kept in sync.
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I want to subscribe to several RSS feeds at once, and save the contents to a database. I have a Superfeedr account, so I can subscribe to the feeds that way, but I've read the Superfeedr docs and I can't figure out how I then access the aggregated feed to do anything with it.
I have an Azure account with a PostgresQL database which I can use to save the information, but I'm not sure whether there's a 'best' way to do that - I'm happy to use PHP, C, JS or something else, but I don't really know where to actually put the code to make it work. Do I set up a cron job or some kind of timeout, or can I get Superfeedr to automatically send updates to a listener?
I created Superfeedr many years ago :)
Superfeedr uses webhooks which means that once you have subscribed, you will receive notifications which include the content of the updated feeds on your HTTP server (you can ise PHP, JS or even C if you feel adventurous!)
These notifications will be POST requests and you just have to parse the body.
I'm looking for suggestions for a tool/platform that can help in capturing form and file attachment data from external sales agents. I currently use Google Forms and a plugin to enable sending email notifications to specific contacts, but the hope is to create something more advanced where people providing the data can login to submit data and make updates to the records. The platform should also enable approval workflows with email notifications to ensure the incoming data meets requirements.
Here is a description of the desired process:
Agent logs in to the platform
Agent submits data (and optional file attachments) into the system using a form
Upon submission, the system triggers a review task and sends an email notification to a reviewer
If the reviewer deems the information invalid/incomplete, they will
reject it, with comment, and the system will
automatically send the information back to the agent while copying
their manager. Record status will be updated automatically.
If the reviewer deems the information invalid, they will approve it, with or without
comment, and the system will automatically send the information back to the agent while copying
their manager and project administrator. Record status will be updated automatically.
Additional requirements:
Contacts for email notifications will vary by agent and they should be determined by identification items on the user/agent profile
Agents need to be able to update records but a new review task will be triggered once an update is submitted
The system should have functionality for searching the record fields
An agent should see their own data and data submitted by others in the same agency, but not the data submitted by agents outside their agency
I should be able to see the full list of submissions and version history of the records
Approximate scale: 100-150 agencies, 1000-1500 agents
So far, I've thought of using a list within SharePoint Online combined with Microsoft Flow, but I'm not sure it would enable all the desired functionality. I'd be interested in your thoughts about that setup as well as others that you think could work and/or have found successful. Even if your solution does not tick all the boxes, I'd be interested to know about it.
Thanks a lot for your help!
JP
We have a Powershell script that creates some guest users using the New-AzureADMSInvitation cmdlet, and its return value has a handy-dandy InviteRedeemUrl property that we include in a nice welcome email to the user to get them started with setting their account up and using our application. This works fine when inviting individual or small numbers of users.
However, we'll need to do this for many users, and carefully control when the emails go out, and I can't see any other way of retrieving this URL after-the-fact... the only option seems to be the "Resend invitation" button on the guest user in AD, which sends a Microsoft-branded email from "Microsoft Invitations" with the redeem URL, which is kind of a problem... For marketing reasons we need to put the invite redeem URL in our own welcome email, so we don't want Microsoft sending out those emails.
Is there any way to retrieve or calculate that invitation URL after the guest user had already been invited? I know I could delete and recreate the invitation itself, but that's still a manual process and I'd like to be able to create guest users in bulk first, and then retrieve those URLs in bulk once we're ready to send out emails. Especially since Azure AD itself seems to be able to fetch the redeem URLs later on via the "Resend invitation" button.
Alternatively , you can think of adding you company branding in the verification and invitation mails in azure AD.
Here is something similar you can find:-
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/active-directory-b2c-faqs#how-do-i-customize-verification-emails-the-content-and-the-from-field-sent-by-azure-ad-b2c
Basically you need to change the company branding in Azure active directory to have your custom logo and text.
Hope it helps.
We ended up modifying the AD invitation script to store the InviteRedeemUrl value in our CRM as a field on the customer record. Then later on when our Marketing team wants to start their email campaigns, they could include a reference to this field in the email template just like they would any other field. This way, we got all our analytics on click/open rates and retained complete control over the emails, including where each batch was being sent from (so customers could reply to the correct support staff member for their segment).
I am looking for some code, which I could send mails out of my website.
I want the user's registered in my website, to be able to automatically send emails at specific time, that's defined by the user. I need a triggering mechanism in asp.NET such that it fires the exact date & time as specified by the user
Any suggestions/approach apart from the above statement is also welcomed.
I have found a solution for the problem, and would kindly request the moderators to delete the post.
Thank you
Asp.Net is not the correct framework to perform scheduled tasks.
You can use Asp.Net for a web interface in which you allow the users to create "tasks", set the timed intervals and even the content of the emails.
BUT - The process which sends the emails should probably be done using a task scheduler...
Here is a post to point you in the right direction...
I have a niche website that needs to allow users to post events and other things to the website. Wordpress works perfectly for this option (as well as other needs). The problem is, there is also a weekly newsletter (published as a PDF file) that gets sent to a large opt-in email list. Is there any way to configure Wordpress (via plugin or hack) to send the CONTENTS of the post to the admin in a csv or rtf file of some sort? The posts themselves will have several custom fields. Most of the stuff I churn up when I search for "post to email" for Wordpress is the other way around, for people wanting to send an email and have that post to their site, which is not what I want to do. I suppose other ideas of getting around my problem are open to consideration too. Thanks!!
One way I am thinking you could accomplish this but haven't tested it. You could make a php script to parse the rss feed and email that contents. Depending on whether how many posts get done in a week, you could either create a function for it to fire after the post is posted; or have a cron job on it and send it once a week before the newsletter is to be sent. Sorry I'm not in front of my machine that has WP installed to test it out.