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