Hello. First of all, thanks for all of the help. I am running LS on my first cloud server with me first nginx/monicadb stack and am having great success.
My last question for the community: in theory our survey should only receive responses during business hours and we do not want people to pop in after hours and stuff the box. We have a lot of employees on personal phones, so a whitelist for our own network will block half of our people.
At this moment it looks like I can manually put it in/out of system maintenance mode using the general menu of the global settings where there is a switch.
Is there a way to schedule the system so that it activates at 8am and closes at 330p? It would be like the activate/deactivate survey feature but be repeated every day.
Worst case scenario I need to edit out spurious responses that have a start time recorded outside the window, but I am trying to reduce manual steps and work.
Thanks for any thoughts on this. I could also turn the server on and off easily with cron, but that would probably generate support tickets when people cant see the server. Thanks for helping me brainstorm this. ck
My first idea was to create two small scripts (php) and switch the value of "maintenancemode" accordingly UPDATE lime_settings_global SET maintenancemode='hard'
UPDATE lime_settings_global SET maintenancemode='off'
and run the scripts by a cron job.
But also, maybe an easier approach, you could have a first question of type equation in your survey, where you check the time
Participants outside the allowed time window are screened out by a quota.
But the disadvantage is, you may get a lot of screenouted responses, which you have to delete. Though it is not a big thing.
Joffm
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The first sounds like a good option for me. I have never run php through cron, any good examples in the ls docs? It has been years since I touched php code, but have sudo access so could make it happen with a recipe. Thanks. Ck
