Suggestion For Scheduled Reminders

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Q: [Phil] Does anyone have a way to generate scheduled reminder emails from a wiki page. Perhaps via some scheduling script attached to the page that simply initiates a page-edit-save on the scheduled date? The automatic site change notification email would suffice from there. (Of course if I get this feature working, then next I'll want a text message option to their cell phone and/or for the page to dial them and read the wiki page to them :)

For example: If the wiki provided for scheduled email notifications from pages, then project management could be accomplished using the wiki by:

1. creating a task page (1 page of a much larger project)
2. assigning responsibility of page management to an individual
3. specifying the individual's responsibilities on the page
4. schedule dates for follow-up with the individual
5. if page changes could then be scheduled on the page to be automated in some fashion, then the user would receive a site change notification from the page and thus be reminded to review/update it, etc. If they complete their work on the page before a scheduled email follow-up they can simply unschedule the automatic email. Whoever is supervising them would know this had occurred via the standard the site change email geenrated when the user updates the page.

The primary objective is to spur action, remind team members of project deadlines, etc. so that work continues to move along. (Ideally, these individual wiki user pages and all tasks and due dates listed on them could somehow be linked by the Project manager/supervisor in a master Project plan external to the wiki. (in Project 2003 etc.)

A: [matt] Phil, you could do most of this with a script of some kind that uses the site's RSS feed, but this would require some programming. You might look into outside services that can do interesting things with RSS feeds and see where that leads you. The only part that might be missing is the assignment piece, as EditMe doesn't have an assignment attribute on pages.