Simple Notifications

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Simple Notifications
This tool sends an email when a situation occurred.

The situation is composed by calculating an operation from a field of a table. The calculation can be a SUM, COUNT, AVERAGE, MIN or MAX, and the result is compared with a value. The options of comparison can be =, <>, >, >=, < or <=. The table can be filtered.

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Miklos_Hollender

Such configurable developents are very neat and look good in a CV but actually their usefulness is limited. You set it up, set up three cases, and you can be 100% sure the next request will be something it cannot do by default and you have to customize it and then customize it further and year down the road you realize the whole configurability did not really mean anything as you write hundreds of lines of codes for every customer anyway. So at the end of the day you will end up writing a function for each notification anyway.

It is a sad thing but this is how the real world operates. We programmers would like nice configurable things, but in reality people always come asking questions like "can you set it up so that it sends me a mail every time the customer's over credit limit.... 2 weeks later: except for customer x, y, z I trust them... 3 weeks later except when z is three times over his credit limit I don't trust him that much.." so you end up hand-programming anything all the time anyway.