I'd like to have counters in Visualcron.

The should be added in the Manage menu.

A counter should have a default / start value.

There should be tasks to modify these counters like add x to -, or substract x from a counter.

In conditions you can have a comparison like greater than / equal to / less then a counter.

They should be in a database file in the settings folder and should be backupped.

Why?
I have a job running every 5 minutes and if this one fails it is going to mail the error to some people.
Sometimes I have a few hundred emails in my mailbox... I want only one if it fails, and one if it is working again.
I think I can manage this with the help of counter variables.

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Hi Erik,

please check out the new beta forum. We have our first beta of Variables functionality.

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Thanks!

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Now with the variable in place in the beta, wouldt it be nice to have triggers for it?

The Monitor Variable Trigger will trigger a job when a variable has reached a specific value (is/isn't/ is bigger than/is less than).

I think this add-on completes the variable section.



:-s And what about a default value in the variable setup, and a task to set the variable back to its default?

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Triggers are a good idea.

We were thinking about default value but it does not give so much extra as you can just use the Set Variable Task to update the value to your default value.

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If you use the set value approach, then you need to know the default value of the variable. You can make the task generic if you have the option in the set variable task to set it's value back to default. You have to have the option to enter the default in the manage variables window.

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I understand. We will think about this. There were some reasons why we did not go for the default value:

1. We did not want to store, a possibly large value, twice.
2. We thought it was fairly easy to set it to the default by using Set Variable.
3. It would add some extra, already complex, validation of Variable.

We see your point but we made a design decision here. We will think about this again, for the next change.

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We see your point but we made a design decision here. We will think about this again, for the next change.

ok.

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