Hi,

All of my Visual Cron jobs are triggered by a flag file being created in a location on the server. However, i cannot see a way to generate an email notification if the trigger file has not been created by a specified time and therefore the job has not run.

Seems like it should be standard functionality but, not sure how to implement. Any ideas or advice?

Sounds like you could use a trigger timeout

Sounds like you could use a trigger timeout

Thanks for the reply. Can you elaborate? As far as i can see the only action upon specifying a timeout period is to 'fire' the trigger. This is not what we're trying to achieve here. We need to be notified if a job has not run by a specific time.

You could have another job which checks the status of this trigger at a specific time or a job which activates this one and then the trigger expires.

For example

Job A activates job B at 10am
Job B has a file trigger
Job B has an expiry on the trigger at 1 hour

At 11am if Job B's trigger has not fired it sends an alert