Patient Reminder Sender
The Patient Reminder Sender is a scheduled job that sends Email and SMS reminders queued by the Patient Reminder Queue job.
It should be scheduled to run during business hours.
You do not have to use the Patient Reminder Sender job. If you do not, then Email and SMS reminders will be sent as part of the Reporting|Reminders|Send|Send All processing.
However, since you probably want to send out Email and SMS reminders more often than printed, listed, and exported reminders, then it is convenient to set up a Patient Reminder job to do this on say a daily basis.
The create/edit/view screen is as follows:
The fields are as follows:
| Name | The job name |
| Description | The job description |
| Active | This schedules the job to run if checked, or prevents it from being run if unchecked. |
| Minutes | See Cron Expression |
| Hours | See Cron Expression |
| Day Of Month | See Cron Expression |
| Month | See Cron Expression |
| Day Of Week | See Cron Expression |
| Run As |
Specifies the user to run the job as. This user is required to have permissions to:
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| Notify | Specifies the user or user group to notify when sending has completed. Notification only occurs when at least one reminder has been sent, or an error has occurred. You may want to use a 'real' user or group of real users, or you may want to create a user such as 'Reminder Jobs Message Receiver' used only for these notifications. |
Cron Expression
The Minutes, Hours, Day Of Month, Month, and Day Of Week fields determine when the job is run, using a simplified version of a Cron expression:
| Field | Allowed Values | Allowed Special Characters |
|---|---|---|
| Minutes | 0-59 | , - * / |
| Hours | 0-23 | , - * / |
| Day Of Month | 1-31 | , - * ? / |
| Month | 1-12 or JAN-DEC | , - * / |
| Day Of Week | 1-7 or SUN-SAT | , - * ? / |
Note that only one of Day Of Month and Day Of Week may be specified. If one is specified, the other must be set to ?.
If you change the schedule, the new schedule will take effect immediately.
Examples
| Description | Minutes | Hours | Day Of Month | Month | Day Of Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run at 8am every day | 0 | 8 | ? | * | * |
| Run at 8:30 on weekdays | 30 | 8 | ? | * | mon-fri |