Repeat push notification schedule
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Currently, we are repeating push notifications by scheduling cloud codes 24 hours later with push notifications to repeat them at a set time every day for a specific segment.
The problem with this method is that the time gradually gets later due to server delays.
Also, there was an issue a while ago where calls were suddenly made at a time other than 24 hours due to a server error.
It would be nice to have a function that can repeat at a set time (UTC) rather than after N hours.
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Hi Lee,
We hear you. I'll raise it with the devs.
Paul.
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You can schedule a cloud code script to run at a specific target time (as shown in the example below, which will execute at 23:59 every day), instead of adding a certain amount of time to the script's execution time.
"use strict"; function main() { var response = {} bridge.logDebugJson("Script Inputs", data) const scriptName = data.scriptName const interval = data.args.interval const searchSpan = interval < 60 ? 60 : 60 * 24 // schedule checking and re-schedule itself for the next week at 23:59 on the same day var scriptProxy = bridge.getScriptServiceProxy() var dateTimeSpanMinsFromNowInMillis = new Date().getTime() + (searchSpan * 60 * 1000) var result = scriptProxy.getScheduledCloudScripts(dateTimeSpanMinsFromNowInMillis) var nowTime = new Date().getTime() if ((result.status == 200) && (result.data !== null)) { for (var i = 0; i < result.data.scheduledJobs.length; i++) { if (result.data.scheduledJobs[i].scriptName === scriptName && result.data.scheduledJobs[i].scheduledStartTime > nowTime) { scriptProxy.cancelScheduledScript(result.data.scheduledJobs[i].jobId) } } } const targetHour = 23 const targetMinute = 59 const minutesDifference = getMinutesDifference(targetHour, targetMinute) let minutesFromNow = minutesDifference + interval bridge.logInfo(`minutesFromNow between the script calling time and the time of 23:59 on a same day${minutesFromNow}`) response.scheduleJob = scriptProxy.scheduleRunScriptMinutes(scriptName, data, minutesFromNow) // the code for your script return response } function getMinutesDifference(targetHour, targetMinute) { const now = new Date() const targetTime = new Date(now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), now.getDate(), targetHour, targetMinute) const differenceInMilliseconds = targetTime - now bridge.logInfo(`differenceInMilliseconds between the script calling time and the target time: ${differenceInMilliseconds}`) const differenceInMinutes = Math.floor(differenceInMilliseconds / (1000 * 60)) return differenceInMinutes } main()
The parameters for this script will be 1440 minutes,
{ "scriptName": "thisScriptNameItself", "args": { "interval": 1440 } }