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9 years ago Hello amortphous,
First of all, thank you for using my extension and especially for reporting this issue you are having.
If the extension install went OK there should be a scheduled job already set up on your CiviCRM.
If you go to your Scheduled Jobs page in CiviCRM there should be a job called "Call Contacts.CorrectNameCasesJob API". You can see the following screenshots for reference.
The job is set to run once each day and each run it will checks the capitalisation of 500 contacts. If you wish to modify this value you can press the "Edit" button. You can set the command parameter "contactsToCorrectEachRun" to be any value you desire, you just need to be careful not to overburden your server. I.e. you can set it to scan 1000 contact each day by setting it like contactsToCorrectEachRun=1000
The way this extension work is as follows:
- Each day the Scheduled Job will scan 500 contacts (default value);
- If the contact has it's first or last name in all lower or upper capitalization the name will be corrected. -> E.g. 'JAMES morris' or 'James MORRIS' will change to be 'James Morris'. 'JAmes Moris' will remain the same.
- The scheduled job will only correct contacts that are individuals and will start from the first contact that exists on CiviCRM.
- The job will run until there are any contacts to correct, it will run just once per day.
- When the job reaches the end it will stop, and then on the following day check if there are any new contacts to correct.
Each time the job run it creates a small report that can seen by pressing the "View Job Log" button on the job description. There it will tell you the number of contact it has corrected, the current offset (i.e. the number of contacts scanned) and the total number of contacts corrected in the last run.
I hope you found this information useful. If you still need some assistance please don't hesitate to email me again.
Kind regards,
Vitor Nobrega
On 17 November 2014 16:10, amorphous notifications@github.com wrote:
Hi Vitor, I've just installed the extension, but have no settings available on the "Scheduled Jobs" page. Do I have to create the job by hand? Civi doesn't seem to recognise the commands you've given in the documentation.
I'm also not sure of the best way to check whether the extension is running / changing entries. Could you advise as to the order that contacts are updated?
Thanks.
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Vitor Nóbrega
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Hi Vitor, I've just installed the extension, but have no settings available on the "Scheduled Jobs" page. Do I have to create the job by hand? Civi doesn't seem to recognise the commands you've given in the documentation.
I'm also not sure of the best way to check whether the extension is running / changing entries. Could you advise as to the order that contacts are updated?
Thanks.