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bulky-accountant-96337
11/23/2023, 9:12 PMI need to execute a code periodically and this card should be able to
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famous-jewelry-85388
11/23/2023, 9:26 PMHey,
It is like this:
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bulky-accountant-96337
11/23/2023, 9:42 PMHi
bulky-accountant-96337
11/23/2023, 9:42 PMI´ve been waiting more than 60 seconds to that messag to pop up
bulky-accountant-96337
11/23/2023, 9:54 PMalso tried with this syntax
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famous-jewelry-85388
11/23/2023, 10:08 PMit doesn't work in the emulator 🙂
famous-jewelry-85388
11/23/2023, 10:08 PMAnd don't use the text message, I don't think it knows the conversation ID
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bulky-accountant-96337
11/23/2023, 10:09 PMso I can know its working is there a test that I can do?
bulky-accountant-96337
11/23/2023, 10:52 PMI even made this code that when it runs it should set the variable userVariable to true after 60 seconds. I don´t know what to do anymore
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famous-jewelry-85388
11/24/2023, 6:41 PMDid you publish it?
famous-jewelry-85388
11/24/2023, 6:41 PMAnd test it from the channel (webchat for example) ?
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limited-pencil-78283
12/16/2023, 5:29 AM@famous-jewelry-85388 - I have the same issue, my fixed schedule cron is working, however, it is not aware of the conversation ID. user-level variable values do not seem to be working.
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Transition from (flow:Menu) [node:UPICheck] to [node:CheckUPIStatus]
[477f9de0aa] [bot-action] [flow:Menu] [node:CheckUPIStatus] [card:action]: Execute code "inline-card:action.js"
[477f9de0aa] [bot-action] [flow:Menu] [node:CheckUPIStatus] [card:action]: Session Idlimited-pencil-78283
12/16/2023, 6:38 AMthere should be a link to show that this expression triggers the fixed schedule 😄
limited-pencil-78283
12/16/2023, 6:41 AMand now the bigger question is how to stop it programmatically
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quick-musician-29561
12/17/2023, 9:11 AMI tested this also after publishing, with the same results. Cron is working, I tried it to console.log "Hi!" and it did that.
quick-musician-29561
12/17/2023, 9:13 AMWhen trying to periodically send a message to the user, execute code and change user variables or similar tasks, it needs conversationId
quick-musician-29561
12/17/2023, 9:20 AMMany bot builders have asked why the Fixed Schedule / cron job doesn't work in Botpress, or if it does, how to do it 🤷♂️
I have answered that this could work better by using the Botpress API. For a few bot builders I have built a custom solution for their needs that compares the time of the latest message with the time of previous messages.
I run cron jobs on my Linux servers so I'm familiar with it, and cron jobs would be the easiest way to handle all these tasks in the Botpress cloud as well 🛠️ 💎
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limited-pencil-78283
12/17/2023, 9:32 AMI too realised that the fixed schedule loses context every time it runs. I don't have a solution yet.
Someone from @User. Need help here
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famous-jewelry-85388
12/18/2023, 3:33 PMhey guys, did you try also adding the channel? Not only the ocnversation ID?
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limited-pencil-78283
12/19/2023, 5:19 PMNeed to try @famous-jewelry-85388
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limited-pencil-78283
12/22/2023, 3:03 PM@quick-musician-29561 not yet, I will be after holidays in the new year. Will update here if it works
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quick-musician-29561
01/05/2024, 4:00 PMHave you tried it again, did you get cron to work with Botpress? 💡 🛠️
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famous-jewelry-85388
01/08/2024, 6:47 PMI will mark it as solved for now. If you still have question or inquiries, please start a new thread.
If the above didn't work, please mention me here in a comment 🙂
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limited-pencil-78283
01/09/2024, 12:13 PMI did not try
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quick-musician-29561
01/09/2024, 8:06 PM@limited-pencil-78283 Here I used cron to automatically send KB table data to Google Sheets https://discord.com/channels/1108396290624213082/1194161232052244521
I think now we know where the Fixed Schedule works and where it doesn't
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limited-pencil-78283
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