I would like to schedule automated posts to the news field. The scenario: we w

mikec over 10 years ago

I would like to schedule automated posts to the news field. The scenario: we would like to document a series of tips on how to use Tempo. We would create these tips in advance and deliver them one per day. So for example we create 14 tips and then schedule to have one delilvered each day at a set time. Anyone doing something like this? Regularly scheduled tempo posts?

How I envision it is ability to create a tip and save it. Then have a process that goes and grabs the next tip in line at its scheduled time.

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0 chase.putnam over 10 years ago

Hi Mike,
You can create a process model to allow a user to enter in a tip and save it to a database table. The table should also give each record an id value. Then you can create another process model to continuously run on the system with a timer running within it to fire at your set time each day. After the timer fires in the process, you can pull in a tip record from the database table and post it to the news feed. Then you can increment a process variable that saves the last pulled database table record id by one to then pull in the next record in the table the next time the timer fires. (Assuming the id sequences are separate per database table and will increment by 1.)
Be sure to add in checks so that there is no post if there are no new records in the data base table, so that the process does not throw an error or such.
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0 chase.putnam over 10 years ago

Hi Mike,
You can create a process model to allow a user to enter in a tip and save it to a database table. The table should also give each record an id value. Then you can create another process model to continuously run on the system with a timer running within it to fire at your set time each day. After the timer fires in the process, you can pull in a tip record from the database table and post it to the news feed. Then you can increment a process variable that saves the last pulled database table record id by one to then pull in the next record in the table the next time the timer fires. (Assuming the id sequences are separate per database table and will increment by 1.)
Be sure to add in checks so that there is no post if there are no new records in the data base table, so that the process does not throw an error or such.
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