{"id":1171,"date":"2007-07-13T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2007-07-13T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T19:01:00","slug":"how-to-create-a-timer-job-and-update-its-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/2007\/07\/13\/how-to-create-a-timer-job-and-update-its-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a timer Job and update its progress."},"content":{"rendered":"

The following snippet demonstrates how to implement a timer job and update its progress using SPJobDefinition.UpdateProgress. The example provided below is just to show you how to provision a timer job and update its progress and may not relate well to real-world scenarios.<\/P>
\n

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;
using System.Web.Configuration;
using System.Configuration;<\/P>
\n

public class AutomatcSiteDescUpdater : SPJobDefinition
    {
      
        public AutomatcSiteDescUpdater()
            : base()
        {
        }<\/P>
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        public AutomatcSiteDescUpdater(string jobName, SPService service, SPServer server, SPJobLockType targetType)
            : base(jobName, service, server, targetType)
        {
        }<\/P>
\n

        public AutomatcSiteDescUpdater(string jobName, SPWebApplication webApplication)
            : base(jobName, webApplication, null, SPJobLockType.ContentDatabase)
        {
            this.Title = “Description Updater”;
        }<\/P>
\n


        public override void Execute(Guid contentDbId)
        {
          
           
            SPWebApplication webApplication = this.Parent as SPWebApplication;
            SPSiteCollection siteCol = webApplication.Sites;
            int siteColCount = siteCol.Count;  \/\/In my example (also shown in the picture below) there were 21 site collections. <\/P>
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            for (int i = 0; i < siteColCount; i++)
            {
                SPWeb rootWeb =  site.RootWeb;
                rootWeb.Description = “Description of this web was last updated on ” + DateTime.Now.ToString();
                rootWeb.Update();<\/P>
\n

                \/\/Update Progress Bar
                this.UpdateProgress((int)(i * 100 \/ siteColCount)); <\/P>
\n

                \/\/Dispose rootWeb
                if (rootWeb != null)
                {
                    try { rootWeb.Dispose(); }
                    catch { }
                }
            }<\/P>
\n


        }<\/P>
\n

<\/DIV>
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Progress gets updated as you refresh the page<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following snippet demonstrates how to implement a timer job and update its progress using SPJobDefinition.UpdateProgress. The example provided below is just to show you how to provision a timer job and update its progress and may not relate well to real-world scenarios. using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Text;using Microsoft.SharePoint;using Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation;using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;using System.Web.Configuration;using System.Configuration; public class AutomatcSiteDescUpdater : […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}