Hi

I host at home and am considering moving to a hosting service (my server is so full of backdoors and viruses I've just given up ;) - anyway, I have a windows service that polls my user data and emails users on their birthdays - I am not really familiar with the Scheduler functionality, but obviously if I went to a hosting provider they would not allow me to install my service - is this something that I could do with scheduler (ie. run some business logic).

Sure. It really is simply a wrapper that allows the DNN scheduler to call you class(es) and execute some business logic on a recurring basis. Take a look at the /components/log/PurgeSiteLog.vb example.

Basically create a class that inherits from DotNetNuke.Services.Scheduling.SchedulerClient. Then you have a DoWork Sub that overrides the base class. In this routine, call you other subs with your business logic.

Pretty simple really, but it takes a few minutes to get your arms around it.

HTH

aaah-- Tom to the rescue (again!)

Thanks - I'll add that to my today list - just what I needed!

One thing to be aware of: because the Scheduler process is running out of process, you won't be able reference HttpContext.Current.

I ran into this problem when creating a process to run on Scheduler. The scheduler could not start because of this.

HTH
Ricky.