===Cron Jobs Maintenance  - Development Whiteboard===

This is a whiteboard to discuss development of a utility to maintain scheduled actions for webERP.

The utility would store a series of actions in webERP, and an OS cron-job would call the utility once per day.  If an action was due, it would perform the action automatically.



||Module ||Name ||GL Account||Amount||Frequency||last run||next run||action||action||
|| Receivables||Bobs Widgets ||123456789||$500||weekly||12/1/06||19/1/06||edit||delete||
||Payables||Joe Contractor ||1233434789||$1500||monthly||23/1/06||23/2/06||edit||delete||




||Module ||Payables ||
||Name ||Joe Contractor ||
||GL Account ||1233434789 ||
||Amount ||$1500 ||
||Frequency ||monthly||
||First Action ||23/1/06||
||Submit ||Cancel||



The utility is proposed to include:

====Title: Automate entry of payment to suppliers====

Description: In the case where a supplier is paid a set amount each month, and a matching invoice is received each month.

====Title: Automate entry of GL payments.====

Description: In the case where a payment is made each month, without an invoice.  Such as salary payments.

<steve> I envision splitting up the Configuration Settings eventually into sectional tabs as it has grown to be very long.  I'm thinking a tab within that area would be an appropriate place to house such functionality.  CPanel has a facility for creating and scheduling cron jobs.  It may be a handy reference for what is needed.

Example images:

file:cronjobssamples.jpg

file:cronsample.jpg