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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Scheduled Procedures</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openacs.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="OpenACS Core Documentation"><link rel="up" href="tutorial-advanced.html" title="Chapter 10. Advanced Topics"><link rel="previous" href="tutorial-caching.html" title="Basic Caching"><link rel="next" href="tutorial-wysiwyg-editor.html" title="Enabling WYSIWYG"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><a href="http://openacs.org"><img src="/doc/images/alex.jpg" style="border:0" alt="Alex logo"></a><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header" border="0"><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tutorial-caching.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 10. Advanced Topics</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tutorial-wysiwyg-editor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="tutorial-schedule-procs"></a>Scheduled Procedures</h2></div></div></div><p>Put this proc in a file <code class="computeroutput">/packages/<span class="replaceable"><span class="replaceable">myfirstpackage</span></span>/tcl/scheduled-init.tcl</code>. Files in /tcl with the -init.tcl ending are sourced on server startup. This one executes my_proc every 60 seconds:</p><pre class="programlisting">ad_schedule_proc 60 myfirstpackage::my_proc
</pre><p>This executes once a day, at midnight:</p><pre class="programlisting">ad_schedule_proc \
-schedule_proc ns_schedule_daily \
[list 0 0] \
myfirstpackage::my_proc
</pre><p>See <a class="ulink" href="/api-doc/proc-view?proc=ad%5fschedule%5fproc" target="_top">ad_schedule_proc</a> for more information.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tutorial-caching.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tutorial-wysiwyg-editor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left">Basic Caching </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="tutorial-advanced.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> Enabling WYSIWYG</td></tr></table><hr><address><a href="mailto:docs@openacs.org">docs@openacs.org</a></address></div><a name="comments"></a></body></html>