Command Line Reminders

Concepts

The Reminders tool, which sends out automated e-mail and or SMS reminders to volunteers for upcoming assignments, interviews and trainings, can be run from the command line. This helps ensure that it's run on a regular (at least daily) basis.

Details

Create a desktop shortcut similar to the following, changing the path to VSys as necessary:
VSys.exe assignmentremind

When this shortcut is run, VSys will run the reminder rules you've designated, and produce a log file with its actions. The file will be named AssignmentReminders yyyy-mm-dd hh.nn.ss.log where yyyy is the current year, mm is the month, dd the day, hh the hours (in 24-hour format), nn the minutes and ss the seconds. Even if no new reminders are generated, this log file will be created.

Notes

• You can run the tool as often as you want. VSys will not send out duplicates of the same reminder.
• VSys will prevent more than one copy of this tool from running at the same time.
• This tool generates the reminders but does not deliver them. To have them sent on an automated basis, leave the Standalone E-mail Robot running. It will take these queued messages and deliver them where possible.

The "assignmentremind" text is a holdover from older versions of VSys which only supported reminders for assignments. This command, despite the name, runs reminders for assignments, trainings and interviews.