Custom Timer Job (RWL)

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• Technical Objective
• Solution
• Technology Used

About Client

Custom Timer Job (RWL)

Australia

Insurance

Challenges

• One of the clients was using manual and offline Microsoft access file based solution to store their business data. 

• They were maintaining different access files for different zones that they were operating in.

• All these zone-wise data files were disconnected and independent of each other.

• The client wanted an online system with data accumulated from all these independent access files. 

• They also needed advanced filtering, and sorting facilities on these data; along with dashboard facility containing various widgets showing useful information related to data.  

• Also, they wanted to control the data being shown to various users of system.  

Technical Objective

• First and foremost, system needed to import data from existing access files; that too at a regular interval so as to keep both systems in sync until the older system is discontinued from use.  

• More metadata needed to be attached to existing data.  

• Email notifications were required to be sent on encountering certain data states.  

• Filtering and sorting facilities were to be provided on data listing.  

• Security restrictions were to be provided on the amount of data being shown to various users.  

• A dashboard was needed which would display useful data aggregations.

Solution

• A custom timer job was developed to import data from access files.  

• Mismatches and problems faced during import were logged and web parts were provided to search and manage these logs.  

• Aggregate data from all zone based access files were stored together in SharePoint lists.  

• Extra metadata fields were provided along with existing fields in SharePoint lists, which helped users to provide further details to existing data.  

• A custom user-management web-part was developed based on business needs. This module took care of providing and removing appropriate SharePoint security rights to various users of site. A user could only see data for which he/she is authorized to work on.  

• Custom web-parts were developed for listing various data. Custom filtering and sorting inputs were provided along with each data listing. Also, CAML query based paging was provided for each listing.   

• Various web parts were developed to show widgets and charts to display user data.  

• Lots of customization was provided to admin user through custom web-part properties.  

• Site was provided with custom branding for better esthetics and enterprise look & feel.  

Benefits

• The solution provides a great online platform for existing scattered offline data.  

• User based security restrictions ensured data authorization.  

• Import timer utility helped both old and new system to run simultaneously without any trouble.  

• CAML based custom paging ensured best performance in spite of working on huge amount of data.  

• Log management ensures easy tracking of import problems.

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