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setting up cfschedule
Hi, I want to add a .cfm page to my site that sends emails at specified times.

Do I just include a page like schedule.cfm, with some code like the following, in the site and if so how does the hosting server know when to run it? Does a computer with an internet connection need to run it remotely?

<cfschedule
action="Update"
task="SimpleTask"
URL="http://YourSite.com/YourPath/task.cfm"
interval="600"
operation="httprequest"
StartDate="#DateFormat(Now())#"
StartTime="#TimeFormat("00:00:00")#"
publish="yes"
path="#LogFileDir#"
file="#LogFileName#">

This code is only an example.

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Read the docs if you haven't already.
Are you sure that your host has this enabled? I thought it was disabled by default, and I wouldn't think that many hosts would allow it.
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If the host has it enabled, then yes, running a page with the <cfschedule> tag add that task to the list of scheduled tasks and it will run at the interval you specified.
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if not allowed by host.
If scheduled tasks aren't allowed by the hosting company what are the alternatives?

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I,ve read the documentation but it only seems to say what to do without hosting companies barring the facility.

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The only alternative is to do it manually as far as I know.
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