Server Add-In Task: Delay

After doing C-API programming for a number of years, when Paul Mooney asked me to construct a server add-in task which would delay for a number of seconds, and then run a console command, I thought "No problems. 30 minutes". Well, it took perhaps 90 minutes, but here it is.

Ive compiled this on Windows 32-bit for Lotus Domino v6 and onwards. You can download this pre-compiled version from here. Alternatively, if you are very interested in how to build a server add-in task, the full source code is here. Note that I used MS Visual Studio 2005 and the Notes C-API Toolkit v6 in order to compile this. You'll need the source code if you want to port it to other platforms.

In order to use it:

• Copy the server add-in task to the Lotus Domino programs directory
• At the console, type in:
  Load Delay [seconds] [command-line]
  where:
  • [seconds] is the number of seconds that the server add in task should wait.
  • [Command-line] is the server console task you wish to pass to the server.
  For example:
  load delay 10 show tasks
  will wait 10 seconds, and then run the server task 'show tasks'.

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