Re: Introduction and query

Ross Thompson <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:44:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mr-project.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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