How to programmatically start a TimerJob?

Question

i have created a TimerJob which can be configured in the central administration how it should run (daily, weekly, etc).

But now i have a additional requirement that a user should be able to start the job manually out of the frontend (a site in a sitecollection).

a) is that possible? and if yes, how to achieve this? b) how to re-design this that it fulfills the requirements?

br Yavuz

Answer 1

This question is same as yours.

as stated in this question you can create another timer job to set some flag status and run your actual timer job.

To run a Timer Job a user must have Farm Admin rights, so even writing the code to run in elevated privileges will not work either.