Using CB Auto Actions to trigger on a profile date?

Every year, the dojo students must renew their yearly "passport" on their registration date. That date is actually a CB date field filed at registration. Would we be able to use CB Auto Actions to trigger on that date and send an email to the user reminding him to renew the passport?

I looked at the plugin itself, but without doc, it's mightily confusing on how to really use it and if it would do the job.

Thanks!

Every year, the dojo students must renew their yearly "passport" on their registration date. That date is actually a CB date field filed at registration. Would we be able to use CB Auto Actions to trigger on that date and send an email to the user reminding him to renew the passport?

Yes that's possible, but you'd probably need to use the Internal Users trigger with CRON to handle parsing every user to see if the email needed to be sent.

I looked at the plugin itself, but without doc, it's mightily confusing on how to really use it and if it would do the job.

As CB Auto Actions is just a tool there's not much that can be documented. In short without a usecase CB Auto Actions doesn't do anything. The various parameters are all explained by the descriptions next to the inputs. In addition to this we've multiple usecase examples. The problem is usecases become specific and documenting those becomes impossible. So it's really one of those situations where you just need to tinker with it and check out some examples to get started. Below is a good starting point for some examples.

www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/107-use-cases

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp0puRITgC7McQcw0Sli1qfSUQGwmflzi

Is the Internal Users trigger explained in the youtube video?(youtube is blocked here at work, so I can't check it out.)

If not, can you give a bit more input on it's basic use?

Thanks

And I'll gladly supply a text to add as a Use Case once I get this running!

To use Internal Users create an action with the Internal Users trigger selected. Next navigate to CB Auto Actions > Parameters and click "Internal Users URL". It will now fire any action with the Internal Users trigger on every user row on your site. There is no batching for this at this time so it could be a heavy action. Be sure your action is fully tested working before doing this (e.g. test it with the after login trigger or something first). That URL can also be copied and pasted into a CRON task to schedule running it on a regular basis, etc..

There is no "Internal User URL" on the parameters page. I did select Internal Users as the trigger.

That's parameters of your Action. You need to visit parameters for the entire CB Auto Actions plugin within CB > Plugin Management.