Creating a timer job in SharePoint 2007
For the project I’m working for the moment i needed a document library with contracts. The contracts have an end date and an email alert needed to be send when this end date was received. After exploring the possibility to used a work flow created in SharePoint Designer, i abounded the idea and set looked at creating a timer job. This timer job needed to run once a day, check the contracts end date and send alerts when needed.
Handy links where:
But the most useful link I found was by Alexander Brütt (blog by Tobias Hertkorn). On this page you can download a fully functioning Visual Studio Template to create a SharePoint timer job and to get a deployable .wsp file after building the project.There’s even a *.bat file to deploy the solution. Nice!
I’ve created this *.bat file to easily uninstall the feature and solution when testing:
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name customTimerjob -url http://DEVMOSS/
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -name customTimerjob
stsadm -o retractsolution -name customTimerjob.wsp -immediate
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs
stsadm -o deletesolution -name customTimerjob.wsp
pause
Hi Peter,
thanks for your kind words. I just wanted to point out that the post was by Alexander Brütt, who is a friend of mine and a frequent guest writer on my blog. And even though I would love to claim credit for his excellent posts, I’d rather like it if you gave him all the fame and credit.
Cheers,
Tobi
Hi Tobias,
I’ve updated the article, thanks for the important info!
Cheers, Peter