How to send a News post with a count of IDs of new contacts added today?

RE: How to send a News post with a count of IDs of new contacts added today?

harrisont606 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:40:33 GMT

I highly recommend you have created by, updated by, created date, and updated date fields for every table in your DB. Requirements like this will come up frequently.

RE: How to send a News post with a count of IDs of new contacts added today?

erics171 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:05:56 GMT

It is to find the number of created today. However, I don't have a dateSubmitted column in the data. I've resorted to total for now.

RE: How to send a News post with a count of IDs of new contacts added today?

omere0001 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:35:03 GMT

Hi Eric,

Are trying to find the total number of contacts that were created throughout the entire day, or just the number of contacts created for that specific process instance?

RE: How to send a News post with a count of IDs of new contacts added today?

harrisont606 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:31:49 GMT

Hi, for your query, you can do a query to the table with the appropriate date filters and a paging info of (1,0). Then get the total count. It is important to have your paging info as (1,0), otherwise you will pull back data when all you need is the count

a!queryEntity(
entity: cons!YOUR_DATA_STORE,
query: a!query(

pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo(
startIndex: 1,
batchSize: 0
)
)
).totalCount

Make sure to add a filter to only get ones for the appropriate date.

RE: How to send a News post with a count of IDs of new contacts added today?

Larry Nguyen — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:31:16 GMT

The database table that's being written to for the new contacts can have a creation date column that is set automatically to CURDATE() or NOW(). Then for your news feed process you can have it have queryEntity rule grab the count for contacts with a create date of the current date and save that in a pv or acp and utilize that variable / parameter to display the count in the news post.