TYPO3 Core

IMO this is feature which is wrong at the 1st place. tasks are for admins and not for editors.

Some words about your example with the newsletter:
There is IMO no extension out there, which creates automatically newsletters and sends those. And if there is: why should this extension send empty newsletters? IMO the solution is to send the automatic newsletters if there is content for it.

If you really need those custom stop/start thing, just implement a very simple extension where users can edit a record which got a relation to crontasks and the info about start & stop. create a cron which runs over your records and disables the task records. IMO the requirements are such specific that it would be hard to implement that in the core to fit every need.

Okay, i can understand the objection that tasks are for admins only...

But still i think it could be usefull that editors can stop certain tasks... i mean the "deactiviate" switch is there anyways.. why not make it possible to make it accessible for editors - that could be an optional setting for each task for example...

As for the newsletter-extension - "direct mail" will have that feature in it's next release probably... it's already in the SVN and working good...

It's usefull to send a list of tt_news records (of the last 24 hours for example) but on holidays if there are no new articles it'll only send the "no items in this view" thingie...

Thanks for the idea of the extension to control the tasks indirectly...
i will think about that, but still an accessible switch for editors, IMO would be a good thing.

Markus Greulich wrote:

Thanks for the idea of the extension to control the tasks indirectly...
i will think about that, but still an accessible switch for editors, IMO would be a good thing.

This could also be implemented specifically for an extension, as I don't see a global need for it. I made such an implementation in my "external_import" extension whose BE module (which is available in User Tools) provides a form for setting and unsetting the external_import Scheduler task.

http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/external_import/current/

Maybe this helps you. I've been thinking for a long time already that it would be nice if the Scheduler provided an API for this, as it would make it easy to have such forms inside other extensions, but I never had enough need to invest time into this ;-)

But on the principle, I fully agree with Georg, managing tasks is really an admin's job.

I agree with Georg. That's extension's problem, not scheduler's.