Push Email at Midnight **solved**

[david.delano]

I am trying to set up a push email that at midnight will give me the accumulated rain total for the (previous) day. It looks like part of the problem is that 0000 is considered the next day, and thus there is no data or it is 0. However, the email I receive is a bit strange:

Total rainfall at midnight is [rain0total-sumday=in.2] inch(es).

That is also the string I have in the push email settings. If I use this same string at any other time setting, I get the actual rain total data, even if it's 0.

So, two questions.....why is [rain0total-sumday=in.2] not resolving at midnight? And, is there a better way to dump the data for the previous day?

Just a note....dumping the data at 11:45pm would not be good if it is raining at the time. I need the data to be more complete.

Thanks for any help,
David

[wvdkuil]

I am trying to set up a push email that at midnight will give me the accumulated rain total for the (previous) day. It looks like part of the problem is that 0000 is considered the next day, and thus there is no data or it is 0. However, the email I receive is a bit strange:

Total rainfall at midnight is [rain0total-sumday=in.2] inch(es).

That is also the string I have in the push email settings. If I use this same string at any other time setting, I get the actual rain total data, even if it's 0.

So, two questions.....why is [rain0total-sumday=in.2] not resolving at midnight? And, is there a better way to dump the data for the previous day?

Just a note....dumping the data at 11:45pm would not be good if it is raining at the time. I need the data to be more complete.

Thanks for any help,
David

I think that sending the e-mail at 00:05 and asking for yesterdays value would solve your problem more securely.
Does not make any difference if the mail is a few minutes late, as yesterday values remain the same for the whole day.
I use [rain0total-ydaysum.1:0] for that.
Wim

[david.delano]

Thanks!

This is what I was looking for. Also, I don't really need the email to come out at midnight. I also have an email coming out at 0700 and I can just add this data to it. Pulling the previous day data is what I was looking for.

[david.delano]

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[wvdkuil]

How do I mark this as answered??

You can edit your first message and edit the subject with any extra words you like.
Wim

[admin]

However, the email I receive is a bit strange: Total rainfall at midnight is [rain0total-sumday=in.2] inch(es).

When a set of data is not there, the variable statement is not evaluated. At 0:00 no data for the new day might be there.
you can define a default string to be returned instead by adding a ":" phrase like "[rain0total-sumday=in.2:0.00]" which will return 0.00 when there is no rain data for the specified time frame available.

[david.delano]

Here is what I ended up using. This message is scheduled for 0700.

Rainfall Total for [MM]/[DD]/[YYYY] at [hh][mm]#Report for [MM]/[DD]/[YYYY]\n\nTotal rainfall at [hh][mm] is [rain0total-daysum=in.2:0.00] inch(es).\n\nTotal rainfall yesterday was [rain0total-ydaysum=in.2:0.00] inch(es).

[glennpm]

Hi,

I have had the same issue and changed my "yesterday" reporting to be run at 00:15. Is there a way to override the drop down value so that I could for example, run the report at 00:01? I noticed that 00:05 is mentioned in the quote below and this is not a drop down value.

Thanks

David[/quote]I think that sending the e-mail at 00:05 and asking for yesterdays value would solve your problem more securely.
Does not make any difference if the mail is a few minutes late, as yesterday values remain the same for the whole day.
I use [rain0total-ydaysum.1:0] for that.
Wim[/quote]

[admin]

Is there a way to override the drop down value so that I could for example, run the report at 00:01?

No, no way.