Cannot create a timer job with a yearly schedule

Question

I want to create a custom timer job with a SPYearlySchedule. The job deploys successfully, but when I view its settings in the central admin, it is shown to have an hourly schedule:

Furthermore, as you can see, there seems to be no way to manually configure the job as a yearly job - SharePoint only lists radio boxes ranging from "Minutes" to "Monthly" and that's it.

What could be the cause of this? Here's how I'm creating the schedule:

private void CreateJob(SPWebApplication webApp)
{
    MyTimerJob job = new MyTimerJob(MyTimerJob.TimerJobName, webApp);
    SPYearlySchedule schedule = new SPYearlySchedule();
    schedule.BeginMonth = 10;            
    schedule.BeginDay = 10;            
    schedule.BeginHour = 1;            
    schedule.BeginMinute = 0;            
    schedule.BeginSecond = 0;
    schedule.EndMonth = 10;
    schedule.EndDay = 15;
    schedule.EndHour = 3;
    schedule.EndMinute = 0;
    schedule.EndSecond = 0;
    job.Schedule = schedule;
    job.Update();
}

I can create other schedules (e.g. weekly or daily) without any problems.

Answer 1

As far as i understand your query, because there is no UI(User interface) for yearly job in Central administration, that's why it is showing like this. But if you go to Scheduled Jobs page, it will show the correct next time. As it will be scheduled between 10th to 15th October this year.

That might be little issue with the UI. You can check it is scheduled properly.

Hope this helps!!!

Answer 2

I don't see issue with your code here. Just to rule out dll issue, after you deploy your code and before activating timer feature, try to restart SharePoint timer service. This will reload updated assembly. Also, there is one codeplex utility called SharePoint Timer Job Administration available. I have been using it to manage timer jobs. It is very handy tool in this situation. It was made for SP2007 but it is compatible with SP2010 as well.

Answer 3

try to fill all data for schedule object as follows:

private void CreateJob(SPWebApplication webApp)
{
    MyTimerJob job = new MyTimerJob(MyTimerJob.TimerJobName, webApp);
    SPYearlySchedule schedule = new SPYearlySchedule();
    schedule.BeginMonth = 10;            
    schedule.BeginDay = 10;            
    schedule.BeginHour = 1;            
    schedule.BeginMinute = 0;            
    schedule.BeginSecond = 0;
    schedule.EndMonth = 10;
    schedule.EndDay = 15;
    schedule.EndHour = 3;
    schedule.EndMinute = 59;
    schedule.EndSecond = 59;
    job.Schedule = schedule;
    job.Update();
}

Setting the BeginHour, BeginMinute, and BeginSecond without specifying the EndHour, EndMinute, and EndSecond values will prevent the timer job from running.

Hope it helps,

Andrew