MIcrosoft Project Support

[mohandshamada]

Add the ability to read Microsoft project files by reading xml files. Identifying the critical path and critical tasks. add the ability to update the progress as we go and export it to xml file again

[datadrivenconstruction]

Great timing, a lot of this is already in.

You can import a Microsoft Project XML file today (both the 2016 and 2021 formats), and there is an XER importer too. The critical path and critical tasks are computed by the built in CPM engine, and you can update progress on activities as the work goes.

The two pieces still missing are exporting back out to Microsoft Project XML (right now we export to CSV and to our own open interchange format), and a friendlier import button in the schedule screen for the MS Project and XER files. Both are on our list and we are working on them now.

If you can share a sample file or the exact round trip you need, that would help us get the export right. You can reach us at info@datadrivenconstruction.io. Thanks for the suggestion.

Artem

[datadrivenconstruction]

Quick update: this shipped in v9.2.0.

You can now export a schedule to Microsoft Project XML, and the schedule screen has import buttons for both Microsoft Project XML and XER files, so the round trip you asked for (read a file in, work with the critical path and update progress as you go, then write it back out to XML) is there end to end. The critical path and critical tasks are still computed by the built in CPM engine.

Thanks again for the suggestion. If the export does not round-trip cleanly with one of your files, send a sample to info@datadrivenconstruction.io and we will tune it.

Artem

[datadrivenconstruction]

All of this shipped in v9.2.0: MS Project XML in and back out, XER import, critical path from the CPM engine, progress as you go.

If one of your files does not round trip cleanly, open an issue with a sample and we will fix it.