Sharepoint Timer Jobs

Is there a way to adjust the schedule of a Sharepoint timer job? 开发者_开发技巧The only options I'm seeing in central admin is the option to enable/disable the job and a way to change the job name. Are there some kind of permissions that I need to actually start a job or edit any meaningful data?

I inherited a couple of projects when someone left the company, so please pardon my absolute ignorance of all things Sharepoint.

Thanks Joe

You cannot adjust timer jobs via the UI. And you cannot start a timer job by yourself, they get started by the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service who is responsible for them. To set the schedule for a timer job you have to access and edit the SPJobDefinition object (name of the timer job class in the SharePoint object model) via code.

A SPJobDefinition object has a Schedule property to which you can pass a SPSchedule object to set the start time and the repetition of the job. There are different schedule classes you can select from:

• SPOneTimeSchedule
• SPMinuteSchedule
• SPHourlySchedule
• SPDailySchedule
• SPMonthlySchedule
• SPWeeklySchedule
• SPYearlySchedule

But I wouldn't change the schedule of the timer jobs that come with SharePoint unless you know what you are doing.