Re: Introduction and query
Ross Thompson <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:44:25 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mr-project.devel |
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Malcolm Tredinnick writes: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:18:15PM -0800, Kurt Maute wrote: > [...] > > I did notice, though that in MSP 2002, you can save the project in an > > xml format. I tried it, and it appears that this format would be far > > more simple to convert from/to since the tags tell most of the story. > > This looks to me like the path of least resistance, although a > > shortcoming is that you would need either the MS Project file owner's > > cooperation, or a copy of MSP of your own to do the export to xml. I need support for Office 2000. My company does not plan to upgrade to 2002 any time soon. > There is some support for reading the mpx (MSProject XML) format already > in MrProject. It's in libmrproject/storage-modules/mpx. I'm sure that's wonderful, but it's not useful to me. What I need to do is create a schedule in MrProject and then send it to my management. So, *writing* a format that MsProject can *read* is the direction I'm interested in. - Roß --- Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa