Thanks Sergiu for your answer.
I was thinking of using wiki for that, maybe if I have to write it myself ;)
I'll take a look at the scheduler plugin and try to use it to update my
indicators. I saw that I can put some code in a page and then set a
XWiki.Task to handle it, which is great. I was wondering if it's somehow
possible to call a mySQL procedure from velocity/groovy, which will solve
the problem... Is there something like this in the API? Maybe with some
configuration changes in the HSQLDB file..
What do you think?
Regards,
Ricardo Pinto.
On 9/17/07, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu.dumitriu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
 Hi,
 You can do this in two ways: one is to make the wiki regularly check
 on the warehouse, and create documents when it detects the watched
 events, the other one is to put a notifier between the warehouse and
 the wiki, either directly in the database system, if it supports such
 things, or as another application that watches the warehouse and
 communicates back to the wiki.
 The first variant has the advantage that you don't need another tool,
 or to change the database settings, you will have the watch mechanism
 included in XWiki. It has the disadvantage that you will have to write
 it. You could use the new scheduler plugin we have, combined with some
 Groovy scripting, which will make things a bit easier.
 The second variant has the advantage that you will use something
 existing, you won't have to write it from scratch. If you use a
 database functionality for this, another advantage is that  you won't
 poll for changes, you will get notified exactly when something happens
 in the database.
 On 9/2/07, Ricardo Pinto <xwicaforrica(a)gmail.com> wrote:
  Hello!
 I'm planning the development of the following functionality:
 Running xwiki instance on MySQL;
 There will be an external database (a Datawarehouse to be more precise),
 with business indicators
 If any of the indicators reached a predefined limit value, I' d like to 
 have
  my xwiki generate a document with information
about this event and send 
 an
  e-mail alert to the administrator (or other
users) My strategy may be to
 create a IndicatorClass with some properties like name, description,
 businessarea, currentvalue, limitvalue, externalTable, externalColumn 
 etc.
  Then I'll have to update these indicators on
a regular basiis, which I 
 could
  do with a procedure that will check the external
database and get the 
 latest
  values. For those which reached the limit values,
I'd like to generate
 automaticaly a document (of the class Risk for instance) and send an 
 e-mail
  to warn of these risks.
 What do you think? Maybe a plugin could be a more structured way of 
 doing
  this...
 Thanks in advance for your tips :)
 Bye,
 Ricardo.
 
 Sergiu
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