First some explanation of my Drupal environment. This website has a lot of functionality used in a factory production environment. I have one particular function where I need cron.
Several companies use this system. Each company can keep track of fysical jobs that are processed by their employees. Employees use a barcode scanner to start and stop their jobs in the system. Sometimes they forget to stop their job at the end of the day. The factory can set a checktime for open jobs and a stoptime all open jobs need to be set on at the checktime. Those time values are different for each factory.
I like to set a cronjob for each factory. I could use hook_cron and loop through all the companies, but the cron for each company may only run once a day. I tried to loop through each company and create a cronjob hook_cron_api for each company, but I can't get the callback can't be found. Could I create several cronjobs with their one run time and how do I do that? Another optin would be to use a flag per company that is set on cron run and reset at 0:00?
Cronjob schedule for checktimes could look like this:
company 1: 30 23 * * *
company 2: 0 23 * * *
Can someone help me out to the right strategy? Thanks very much.
Edit:
So I guess the question is how to create an individual cronjob every time a company sets or changes the time settings?
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