reminder/alarm

[Bruce B]

I would like to see a reminder/alarm feature that would act on a timestamp field.  I am thinking of contact management (follow up), to-do, accounting (bill payment and invoice collection) type applications.

The alarm would have global setting adjustments to repeat every X seconds and repeat Y number of times before the alarm would stop.  Have a selectable ring tone.  And notification dialog box with snooze/dismiss.

I am guessing it would use the android system calendar database and set the alarm/reminder there?  I am currently using BizCalendar Pro for some reminders - and it does an excellent job.  If reminders could show up on the calendar as well, that would be a plus too.

Is this hard to do?

Thank you,
-Bruce

[Chris]

Hi Bruce:

Go to your timestamp field in the form editor and enable the Alarm checkbox.

Now once you've saved an entry (It needs to be saved so it will know it's record id) tap on the Alarm Icon.

Set the Alarm tone and message.

When the alarm fires, it will show up in the notification bar. Tap on it and it will take you to the entry in Sailforms.

Change the time and replace and it will fire later.

[Radomir]

Hi!

This is excellent function. I changed the date field to a timestamp field on my form. Now I have an the option of activating the alarm. That is great.

But I notice one problem!

Each time, when I enter a new record, the initial date in timestamp field is 29.01.1970 and time is 11:35. This is bad.

Note, for this timestamp field I have set, "Init" is "date ()".

How do I get in a simple way, in a new record timestamp field - the current (system) date and time?

Radomir

[MikeG]

No problem.
Instead of using date() for your init value, instead use timestamp().

Note: if you'd wanted to initialise to the start of the current day you would use dateToTs(date()).

Mike

[Radomir]

The problem is solved !

Thank you MikeG.