REGULAR TASK EVERY DAY

[Áureo Dias Neto]

Hello guy's, i have a function in controller thats calcule values of all the database everytime an user access the index page.. 

but now, i want to run this in server side, every hour or day.. how to do it? use schedular or cron?

[Dave S]

On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 4:32:40 AM UTC-7, Áureo Dias Neto wrote:

Hello guy's, i have a function in controller thats calcule values of all the database everytime an user access the index page.. 

but now, i want to run this in server side, every hour or day.. how to do it? use schedular or cron?

Scheduler:  you can either use a period (with or without prevent_drift) in 2.14.6 (and back quite a ways),
or grab the daily to get the cron-like argument.
<URL:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/bHoscyybd8E/juZ0d-OvCQAJ>

The web2py cron mentioned in the book is deprecated, and the system cron is overkill.

/dps