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Hi, I'm building a To-Do application where users can create recurring tasks like weekly, monthly etc where an email notification is sent three weeks before the due date. But I can't figure out a good solution to handle the automatic creation of recurring tasks. The best I can think of is to query the database every night for recurring tasks and duplicate them if there is less than three weeks until the due date.
I appreciate all inputs!
For information, in MS Outlook, the following task is populated only when the previous one is marking "complete".
It could be a way, even if you don't have a preview of all the following tasks, as some will be populated after (i.e. when the previous one is completed).
@Vilfago Thanks for the suggestion! I ended up using Laravels scheduler to query the database every night and duplicate recurring tasks.
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