Package your job and report model as a featureThis tutorial is part of a serie. It references the previous article called Create a custom timer job to gather data and generate report source filesThis sample can be downloaded from the "
Release" section (find the
CustomReportsTutorial.zip file).
I. Create a Feature to deploy your jobYou need to add the job to the target SharePoint environment. You can use a feature receiver provided in the SPReporting Framework to make it easier.
Create a
Feature.xml file to define your feature (you can create a folder called "Package" in your project directory to put all your deployment files) :

Define a new Id, a Title and a Description, set the Scope to "
Web" and Hidden to "
TRUE" (it will be activated throught the Reports Center administration page to the Reports Center website) and specify the following Feature Receiver attributes :
- ReceiverAssembly = "SharePointOfView.SPReporting, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=85a56337686e234b"
- ReceiverClass = "SharePointOfView.SPReporting.EventReceivers.JobInstallFeatureReceiver"
Then add the following properties that will be used to add the job and set a schedule :
- IsSoVSPReportingFeature (= true) : needed to detect SPReporting Features
- JobName : internal job's name, must be unique
- JobDisplayName : job's display name
- JobReportSource : report's filename generated in the reports document library
- JobTypeName : your job's class fullname (namespace + class name)
- JobAssemblyName : your full assembly name (be sure to reference the right version and PublicKeyToken)
- JobScheduleType : could be "Daily", "Hourly" or "Minute". This is the schedule type
- JobScheduleBegin : schedule's begin timespan
- JobScheduleEnd : schedule's end timespan
- JobScheduleInterval : schedule's interval (used only for "Minute" jobs)
Here is the Feature with all the properties set :
II. Package your development as a SolutionThis a common step for any SharePoint projects, feel free to use some tools like
WSPBuilder or your own scripts (write DDF, manifest.xml, run the makecab etc...).
In this solution, put :
- your assembly (DeploymentTarget = GAC)
- your feature
III. Deployment and activationYou can deploy your solution running these commands :
- stsadm -o addsolution -filename MyReportSample.wsp
- stsadm -o deploysolution -name MyReportSample.wsp -allowGacDeployment -immediate
You can check if the deployment has been successfull on the "
Solution management" page (Central Administration > Operations > Global Configuration).
Then go to the "Reports Center Administration" (Central Administration > Operations > SharePoint Of View). The new feature should be displayed like this :

You can click on the "
Activate" button. The job should be listed below (you may need to refresh the page).
