SharePoint - How setting the frequency of a custom timer job

Asked By Pasqual

03-Oct-08 05:51 AM

I have created a my custom timer job and deployed it as feature.
Inside Timer Job Definitions page of SP Central Administration I can see my
timer job with a schedule type as Minutes, but I want that it runs daily.
How can change the frequency of my custom timer job without creating an aspx
form?
Thank

03-Oct-08 09:30 PM

You need to update the Schedule property of the SPJobDefinition to the
appropriate class.

For scheduling daily, use code like this:

SPDailySchedule dailySchedule = new SPDailySchedule();
dailySchedule.BeginHour = 0;
dailySchedule.BeginMinute = 0;
dailySchedule.BeginSecond = 0;
dailySchedule.EndHour = 23;
dailySchedule.EndMinute = 59;
dailySchedule.EndSecond = 59;

job.Schedule = dailySchedule;

That tells SharePoint to run the job any time between 00:00:00 (12:00
AM) and 23:59:59 (11:59 PM) each day.  You can make this window shorter
if you need to schedule it during off-peak hours.

You can also run the job hourly using this code:

SPHourlySchedule hourlySchedule = new SPHourlySchedule();
hourlySchedule.BeginMinute = 0;
hourlySchedule.EndMinute = 59;

job.Schedule = hourlySchedule;

Or every X number of minutes using this code:

SPMinuteSchedule minuteSchedule = new SPMinuteSchedule();
minuteSchedule.BeginSecond = 0;
minuteSchedule.EndSecond = 59;
minuteSchedule.Interval = X;

job.Schedule = minuteSchedule;

The Interval is only available on the SPMinuteSchedule class.  Setting
it to 15 will run the job every 15 minutes for example.



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28-Jun-10 09:37 AM

When we want to run a task (like sending emails or deleting the list items etc. . .  )  in Daily basis or in Hourly basis then we can use a Timer job to this task .To see the  timer job you can move to the Central Administrations then click on the operations tab,  then in the Global Configuration section you can see the Timer job status and timer job definition. In timer job definition you can get the details of the timer job i.e.  the  title , the web application to which it is attached   and the schedule type i.e.  Daily, Weekly or hourly basis. To get the status of the timer job go to the timer job status, here you can view status.



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