Yes, the language of the documentation certainly needs tweaking. I had done the installtasks and it did work. Thank you very much for your help. Now, I can have my app check for upcoming appointments and send reminders. It was a much needed functionality.
On Fri, 23 Nov, 2018, 9:06 AM Jason <jjohns98...@gmail.com wrote: > the documentation is ambiguous in that regard. that said, I feel it says > you can register the cron tasks either way, but it doesn't do anything to > actually install the commands. you can see the code of the installtasks > management command: > > > https://github.com/jgorset/django-kronos/blob/v1.0/kronos/management/commands/installtasks.py > > which then runs the functions in > https://github.com/jgorset/django-kronos/blob/v1.0/kronos/__init__.py#L117-L154 > > as you can see there, it uses the python crontab package to install the > crontab task. > > Furthermore, in > https://github.com/jgorset/django-kronos/blob/v1.0/kronos/__init__.py#L107-L114, > you can see what exactly the decorator consists of. It just adds the task > to a task registry set and doesn't do anything about actual installation. > > as an aside, one of the things I've found to be pretty valuable is to look > at the project repository when it comes to questions like this. this is > not meant to be mean, and I'm sorry if it comes across that way. I didn't > know about this project before your question, but a brief look in the repo > revealed those links and functions above, which are the most likely answers > to your question above. you're asking good questions here and giving good > help in return, so if you internalize a method of investigating problems > like this, or have more specific and focused questions that your > investigations have unearthed. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/7e5feb84-d1d6-4dfe-bc48-2e36ac0f0e30%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/7e5feb84-d1d6-4dfe-bc48-2e36ac0f0e30%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAA%3Diw_8W%3Dwk5PZv2MJbrcrbBokD7JwMCO3sfJq0V5CkDEzFLjA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
