Accessing "Description" in a scheduled PROTOCOL:up

[Mark Thompson]

In version 5.3, the PROTOCOL:upoc actually works nicely as a timer to trigger events within the engine.  The designers of the Advanced Scheduling option very wisely included a “Description” column to document what this particular timer call is supposed to be doing.  My question: Is there any way for Tcl to access the description when the upoc timer triggers the event?

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

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[Charlie Bursell]

Not without reading the NetConfig from your Tcl proc.  The name is for reference only.

[Mark Thompson]

Charlie,

Great suggestion.  I don’t have a problem reading NetConfig — there are several nice tools for that.  How can I tell which event# triggered the call?

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

[Charlie Bursell]

You would pass %A to the Tcl proc which is the text if the alert.

I don’t see why you would go to the bother of reading the description from NetConfig.  In the Alerts configuation under action, when you call the proc, simply pass it in.

         myproc “%A”  “My Description”

Don’t forget to put the $A in quotes since it has embedded spaces.

Charlie

[Mark Thompson]

I’ve done quite a bit with alerts and the %A is very helpful.  Can it also be used with the scheduled events in a PROTOCOL:upoc thread discussed in this topic?

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

[Charlie Bursell]

No, it is used in the Alerts only.  Its generated by the Alert engine.

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