Looking to send reminder emails based on Date value of a CCK node [#370328]

I'm looking for a way to integrate Rules to send a reminder email on a given date. So, for example, a user creates a content type and one of the fields is an expiration date. I'd like to send them a reminder email basically saying:

"Hey! This content is expiring today! Make sure you check it out!"

I know I can set a rule to send an email X days after content creation, and I know I can run a daily cron task (but when you just run a cron task, it seems you can't run a check against all nodes of a certain content type to check if they expire that day). I just can't seem to put those two functions together.

Anyone else have this issue and (even better) perhaps a solution?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

Comment #1

fago

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CreditAttribution: fago commented 10 February 2009 at 15:31

Component:

Rules Core

» Rules Engine

Do it like that:
>I know I can set a rule to send an email X days after content creation,

So create an rule set that takes a node argument, then once it created schedule the set to be executed on the given date. So you can use the rule set to send the mail and unpublish the node or whatever.

Comment #2

menoseficaz CreditAttribution: menoseficaz commented 12 February 2009 at 00:16

Could you point me to directions on how to set a rule for an email to go 'x' days after content creation?

I think this is the best approach and I thought of a solution similar to this, but not sure how to implement. Thanks!

Comment #3

TheAlienShore CreditAttribution: TheAlienShore commented 14 May 2009 at 22:54

Version:

6.x-1.0-beta3

» 6.x-1.0-rc2

I'm also trying to send out an email to a user when the value of a cck date field is in the past. What is the best way to do this? I've set up a rule with Event "After creating new content" and a condition "CCK: Field has Changed" and chose my date field. But I'm only allowed to select a specific date. Is there a way to select something like "Date = less than now"? Thanks!