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iCal "reminder" (VALARM) option

Welcome to this forum!

Firstly, apologies if this is a duplicate. I did look, honest :)

re: Can we trigger a seminar notification 15 minutes before the event?

So, if this has not been requested, can we please have the ability to add a Notification in the iCal that is sent some time before the event actually starts?

options: if possible, the time before should be configurable, with a "default" of "15 minutes" (900 seconds), but with perhaps several other options available (e.g. 5 mins, 10 mins, 20 mins, 30 mins)

bonus points: not sure if the RFC allows this (not read it thoroughly yet) - another earlier reminder?

My client-partner that has requested this is currently on T14, but likely to move to 17 later this year.

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Hi Harry

This has been requested by another partner and unfortunately the priority was not high enough to develop.

The ical does support VALARM so could have some parameters included in /mod/facetoface/classes/messaging.php as below which could possibly be developed by a partner including an interface around the parameters.

BEGIN:VALARM",
                "TRIGGER:-PT15M",
                "REPEAT:4",
                "DURATION:PT5M",
                "ACTION:DISPLAY",
                "DESCRIPTION:Reminder",
                "END:VALARM",
                "END:VEVENT",

Centralised notifications for seminars have been added in Totara 17 but the unit is in days rather than minutes

No bonus points for me!

regards

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Hi Craig,

indeed, no bonus points :)

> Centralised notifications for seminars have been added in Totara 17 but the unit is in days rather than minutes

Would it be useful for your devs to consider a finer granularity than "days" for reminders?

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