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Not obvious it is scheduled #6

Open frabcus opened 10 years ago

frabcus commented 10 years ago

Or maybe it is, I'm not sure!

But compared to the Twitter tools, when I go to the "Get US stock data" page it isn't clear that the "TSLA" I've entered is being updated regularly.

StevenMaude commented 10 years ago

By default, it is scheduled; it's not optional. (It runs once a day, with a random time assigned to each tool, and makes a single request, so unlikely to be as problematic for load as Twitter tools.)

We could check for pandas_finance.py in crontab, but how best to indicate that it's scheduled?

@frabcus: Incidentally, I'd say having something like the diagnostics in Twitter is a feature that I would suggest for a common tool framework.

IanHopkinson commented 10 years ago

@StevenMaude The twitter search tool says "Also monitor for future tweets" with a checkbox, and there is a process for binning the search and starting again. There's no indication on the pane that it is scheduled to run regularly other than the "latest" data indication. We talked about having some sort of "Pause" "Play" device but I think you have to be careful about how that's presented.

frabcus commented 10 years ago

I do wonder if this shoudl be a platform feature, esp as making it more prominent in the whole UX would be good for retention.

But anyway, that's for another ticket...

Francis

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:36:56AM -0700, IanHopkinson wrote:

@StevenMaude The twitter search tool says "Also monitor for future tweets" with a checkbox, and there is a process for binning the search and starting again. There's no indication on the pane that it is scheduled to run regularly other than the "latest" data indication. We talked about having some sort of "Pause" "Play" device but I think you have to be careful about how that's presented.

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StevenMaude commented 10 years ago

Maybe we need to check for existence of tickers.txt and then display "Stock tool is scheduled with tickers: ..." if present.