[Zope] Zope Schedule Task

[Martijn Pieters]

At 14:50 12-10-99 , Kam Cheung wrote:
>Is there a way to schedule Zope to do perform some actions? For example, can
>I set Zope to export a folder every night at 10 pm? Of course, since a
>method in Zope can be called by a url, I can write a script to visit the
>method every night, but I would like to find out if it can be done inside
>Zope.

Not yet. For now you'll have to use a cron job in conjunction with for 
example lib/python/ZPublisher/Client.py (check it out, it is very handy for 
calling Zope URLs).

When I have time for it, I am working on a ZScheduler which will provide a 
Zope objets for DTML code to be executed at specified times.

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