Was the lottery supposed to create a new Scheduled Task?
 

Once vbPlaza is installed, was that supposed to create a new scheduled task to perform for the lottery's?

I ask because I was testing a lottery, and it didn't end, and it's past the end date and it is still acting as if it is open. And I have no scheduled tasks that run anything for lottery's.

Its supposed to goob... mine didn't either... i'm going to put it in by hand

rfelice, thanks for the reply. If you can give me any tips on how to do it by hand, that'd be awesome. I looked at it and couldn't understand what was what, as far as the Cron thing and all that goes. The rest was self-explanatory.

ok goto adminCP>>>scroll down to Scheduled Tasks click dropdown then select Add New Scheduled Task,when new window opens put as below
Title= vbBux Lottery Processing
Day of the Week (Note: this overrides the 'day of the month' option) = *
Day of the Month = *
Hour = *
Minute = 30
Log Entries = yes
Filename = ./includes/cron/vbp_lotteryprocess.php
then click save

Thanks for the reply, but what about the variable name, description, log phrase, and product selection? It won't allow me to create it until all of these are filled out.

I'm confused as to how this actually tells the lottery to do anything. We are just making up a file and setting a time. How does it actually point to the lottery?

Thanks for your help, guys.

Varname vbPlaza_Lottery
Description Figuring the lottery winners
Log Phrase I left that empty
Product vbBux/vbPlaza

This is how I got it on my site and hopefully that will help with this problem

Do you set 2 of them for daily/weekly???

I just did 1 and it works now. :)

My dates are off, could someone explain how to set them properly?

You run this CROn every Hour?
I think it must be enough to run this once a Day short after Midnight.