Can GeoForms be configured to send a notification mail (to the administrator) when a feature is submitted ?

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This will particularly be useful for the back-end, since one cant always be on desk to see updates in Operations Dashboard or the main Web Map.

JakeSkinner · Answer

You can set up Windows Task Scheduler to execute the script at a given interval:

Scheduling a Python script to run at prescribed times—Help | ArcGIS Desktop

rogerkayumba · Answer

Thank You Jake.

This was really helpful.

I have the python script written.

After customizing the code lines what's the next step to get this up and running ?

JakeSkinner · Answer

Yes, you could update the parameters to include this field, assign the field value to a variable, and then pass this variable to the e-mail section. I have not tested this, but something like below: # Query service and check if created_date time is within the last hour emailList = [] params = {'f': 'pjson', 'where': "1=1", 'outfields' : '{0}, {1}, {2}'.format(uniqueID, dateField, emailField), 'returnGeometry' : 'false', 'token' : token} req = urllib2.Request(URL, urllib.urlencode(params)) response = urllib2.urlopen(req) data = json.load(response) for feat in data['features']: createDate = feat['attributes'][dateField] createDate = int(str(createDate)[0:-3]) t = datetime.datetime.now() - timedelta(hours=hoursValue) t = time.mktime(t.timetuple()) if createDate > t: oidList.append(feat['attributes'][uniqueID]) emailList.append(feat['attributes'][emailField] print(oidList) # Email Info FROM = fromEmail TO = [emailList] SUBJECT = 'New Features Added' TEXT = "Features with {0}s {1} were added.".format(uniqueID, oidList)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍