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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>
\n

        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>
\n

            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>
\n
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. 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