# Calendar or Scheduler module/ function

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/calendar-or-scheduler-module-function/2186>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 13, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/calendar-or-scheduler-module-function/2186 "2010-09-13T01:19:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dspercival](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@dspercival](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dspercival)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/calendar-or-scheduler-module-function/2186/1 "2010-09-13T01:19:08Z")

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I am looking at the possibility of converting a Cimplicity based system over to Ignition.  
One daunting problem is the lack of an Action Calendar type program and day of week attribute in the time functions.  
I am very new to Ignition so I might very well be missing something. I am starting to write a script to query a table that will hold date / time parameters and a related trigger tag that will be used in a group.

Is something more Application-like on the way? Could it be?

Thanks for great product.

Dave P.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/calendar-or-scheduler-module-function/2186/2 "2010-09-17T17:37:10Z")

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The idea of some sort of scheduler has come up before. In the meantime your approach of putting scheduled items in a DB table and writing a script to periodically check for what time it is and run them is a good and flexible approach.

There is a “dayofweek” attribute for the date functions, by the way, looks like it didn’t make it into the manual (its a recent addition).