Thanks Eric, is it possible to pause the timer ? so would it be possible to do a drop down with different values that would stop the , resume the timer based on the value chosen ? this is what i am really after , pretty much similar to a ticketing tool
On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 6:24:11 PM UTC+2 Eric Shulman wrote: > On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 7:58:29 AM UTC-7 mohamed.e...@vodafone.com > wrote: > >> is it possible to trigger , start or stop a timer automatically if a >> certain criteria is met? so similar to a CRM ticketing tool, creating and >> saving a new tiddler would automatically start a timer , or maybe creating >> a new tiddler with a specific Tag would trigger a predefined duration ? >> > > Alarms are defined by creating a field named "alarms" in *any* tiddler. > The contents of the alarms field is a space-separated list, where each > alarm has several parts delimited by semi-colons, like this: > type;date;time;msg, where: > > *type *is a keyword: "*once*", "*daily*", or a specific day (e.g., " > *Sunday*", "*Monday*", etc.) > *date *is specified using YYYY-0MM-0DD format (e.g. "*2021-04-05*") > *time *is specified using 0hh:0mm:0ss format (e.g., "*09:15:30*") > *msg *is the text to display when the alarm is triggered. > > Note that if the type is "*daily*" or a specific day, then the date part > of the alarm definition is left blank but the semi-colon delimiters are > still present, so there will be two adjacent semi-colons (see example > below). Also, if the msg text contains any spaces, then the entire alarm > definition must be surrounded by doubled square brackets. For example, the > following "alarms" field content specifies four individual alarms: > > [[Monday;;07:00:00;Time for another work week :(]] [[daily;;12:00:00;Lunch > break]] [[Friday;;17:00:00;Weekend starts... YAY!]] > [[once;2021-01-01;00:00:00;Happy New Year!]] > > For your specific use-case (i.e. adding an alarm for a given criteria), > you would need to have a custom button that would create the desired > tiddler and add the appropriate alarms field definition, using one or more > $action-setfield widgets. It might also be possible to do this whenever a > tiddler is created via the standard "save tiddler" button from the tiddler > editor, but this would require adding some JS code to catch the > "th-saving-tiddler" hook (see > https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#Hook%3A%20th-saving-tiddler). > > enjoy, > -e > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3c73f648-53dc-4f0b-8549-bd87c24b9d28n%40googlegroups.com.
