2 week table - display Week A or Week B on desktop

[mdrabble]

The "powers that be", have in their infinite wisdom decided to switch to a 2 week timetable from September.

 

They have asked if I can display Week A or Week B on the desktop depending which week we are in.

 

Anyone ever done this or know of a "simple" way to do this?

 

Cheers

Edited July 18, 2018 by mdrabble

[sted]

put 2 wallpapers somewhere on server called a.jpg & b.jpg. use gpo etc to set everyones wallpaper to c.jpg. on a server have a scheduled task that runs on sunday every 4 weeks that does copies a.jpg to c.jpg and another in the 2 weeks between that copies b.jpg to c.jpg

 

bit of a cludge but should work

[mdrabble]

I have managed to sort the browser home pages so they can display the correct week - using this thread - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/coding/92312-display-week-1-week-2-joomla-intranet-page.html

 

Now..... if I can find a script that looks up the week and can rename files automatically then that would be amazing :-D

[cw222]

Havn't got the solution (sorry) however its something very doable in python with the datetime library and OS or shutil depending on what you want:

 

Some cobbled together pseudopythonycode

#name of library
import [color=#0000FF][b]datetime[/b][/color]
import os

#getting current date
now [color=#666666]=[/color] datetime[color=#666666].[/color]datetime[color=#666666].[/color]now()
#current date to string 
now. day + now.month + now.year to now.string

#comparing string to csv/text file / array / list
Loop now.string to compare against lines in listA{

If now.string present in listA:
#rename file 
os.rename('filea' , 'fileb')
Else:

#rename file
os.rename('fileb' , 'filea')
}

Edited July 19, 2018 by cw222

[jthompson]

put 2 wallpapers somewhere on server called a.jpg & b.jpg. use gpo etc to set everyones wallpaper to c.jpg. on a server have a scheduled task that runs on sunday every 4 weeks that does copies a.jpg to c.jpg and another in the 2 weeks between that copies b.jpg to c.jpg

 

bit of a cludge but should work

 

Doing it this way, you'd probably need more detailed scheduling of the triggers to account for half terms, etc. where the A/B rotation skips an odd number of weeks (and then rework them all next year).

[mdrabble]

Think I have cracked it!

 

Powershell Code

 

#Get the Current Week
$today = Get-Date
$delta = $today.DayOfWeek.value__ - 1

#Import CSV
$CheckDate = $today.AddDays(-$delta).Date
$data = Import-Csv weeks.csv | 
   Where-Object {
       ($_."WeekDate" -as [DateTime]) -eq $CheckDate
   }

#Rename Wallpaper
if ($data.WeekAB -eq "Week A") {
 Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff_WeekA.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff.jpg"
 Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student_WeekA.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student.jpg"
   Write-Host "Week A"
}
else {
Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff_WeekB.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff.jpg"
 Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student_WeekB.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student.jpg"
 Write-Host "Week B"
}

 

 

Then just need to schedule a task to run once on a Monday at silly O'clock and the BGInfo does the rest!

Edited July 19, 2018 by mdrabble

[cw222]

Nice:)! Looks the same logic as the python pseudocode but powershell seems like the better option.

[mdrabble]

Yep same logic - opted for powershell as figured it may be more useful for anyone who wanted to use the script

[p858snake]

Might be able to script it with BGInfo?