Alerts and reminders

[jessicaday]

We need to add in alerts and reminders as soon as possible, as these were both things people brought up at the lab meeting. At the very least, we need to have alerts sent out if you haven't uploaded data in at least 1 week and reminders set for the day before or the day of the date the user chooses to collect data. For example, on the first screen, the user should be able to set how many times per week they will be collecting data. Then, we should be sending reminders so they don't forget. If it has been over 3 months since a user collected data, they should receive a note that says they haven't collected data in over 3 months and they should return their system to ISB (only if they've selected an option that says they are participating as an ISB employee).

[jessicaday]

These can be sent via email, but should not only be a reminder on our website in case they don't regularly check that site.

[jessicaday]

THIS IS PRIORITY #4

[weiju]

We need to create a background task that periodically checks whether users should be notified and does so in case the condition is met. In a first approach and because we can not easily implement background tasks in our web application, we will use a cron job

• systemwide alert periods
• notifications that measurements need to be taken

As a first take, we will not have user-defined settings, but will first use a global setting. Maybe there should be user settings to turn notifications and alerts off, but by default they should be active