reminders system

[Yair Cohen]

HI all,

any1 know an idea of makeing a good reminder system. i mean, it will store
on the DB. and it will jump when it should and u can postphone or decline
it. is there any known method to do this ?
(i have implemented own method that load if from the db, it seem to me that
now it works fine but if i will have tones of reminders ......)

thanks alot
Yair

[One Handed Man]

Write a windows component which sits in the system tray, add a timer with an
interval of say 5 minutes per tick. Then simply design your records to have
certain key fields such as

Alarm Date/Time
Alarm Method : IE MessageBox, Email SMS TEXT
Number of notifications
Time Between Notifications

etc etc

Just have the component monitor your database on each click.

OHM


Yair Cohen wrote:

HI all,

any1 know an idea of makeing a good reminder system. i mean, it will
store on the DB. and it will jump when it should and u can postphone
or decline it. is there any known method to do this ?
(i have implemented own method that load if from the db, it seem to
me that now it works fine but if i will have tones of reminders
......)

thanks alot
Yair

--
Best Regards - OHM
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[Itai Raz]

You can use XML for storing the reminders. I don't see you as having a
problem unless you reach tens of thousands of reminders, which is unlikely
to happen on a desktop system.

Other than that you load that XML, store the next time you need to remind
and go to sleep until then.

--itai

"Yair Cohen" <sm**********@h otmail.com> wrote in message
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HI all,

any1 know an idea of makeing a good reminder system. i mean, it will store
on the DB. and it will jump when it should and u can postphone or decline
it. is there any known method to do this ?
(i have implemented own method that load if from the db, it seem to me that now it works fine but if i will have tones of reminders ......)

thanks alot
Yair

[Nice Chap]

Another possiblility is to create a reminder in outlook (programaticall y)
and allow Outlook do all the work.

[Yair Cohen]

first, thanks u all !

the outlook approach is nice and i thought about it and i will need to think
about i t more deeply because for now it isn't good because i need to relate
objects from the program and i don't know if outlook can help me with this.
what i've already done its a list of reminders that i load from the db and
run over it to find...
the reminder object is not the problem because if a reminder was needed to
load 1 time it was great and not heavy at all ! the problem start when a
reminder has a recurrnce mthod (1 per week, 1 per month etc.)
storing all of them in db is no real (there is also infinity recurrence...)
so what i done, is to load all reminders that thier StartDate start already
and compute from then to now. this is good now, but if i have recurrence of
1 hour , what will be with me more one year ...
so for now i store checks on the db and compute from them (and not from
startdate).
i don't remember because i have done this long time ago but i still remember
i had a problem, it works but i know it is not the efficient way...
but hey, i think about some thing right now !!!
i think to load every, let say, 1 hour, into memory and incuding
computations. then i will store them in a binary tree with the date as key,
and then, every minute i will search the tree for the exact date in the tree
to get this minute reminders.
only a thought ....
what i ment when i wrote the post is if there any algorithm or a method
that solve this already and i will need to do the implementation.
thanks.
i will develope my thought and if i will get anywhere i will share u.
thanks.
"Yair Cohen" <sm**********@h otmail.com> wrote in message
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HI all,

any1 know an idea of makeing a good reminder system. i mean, it will store
on the DB. and it will jump when it should and u can postphone or decline
it. is there any known method to do this ?
(i have implemented own method that load if from the db, it seem to me that now it works fine but if i will have tones of reminders ......)

thanks alot
Yair