Export .mpp to .xml, modify and re-import

John-project 

Thanks again for your response. My main problem is I’m a newby to ms Project so it’s a steep learning curve. Ultimately I want to create a successful marketing campaign for my self developed application (link below in its current release state - the learn section on the app is pre ms Project integration, where the app is used stand alone, pretty successfully - but will be better with ms Project there to coordinate the full protect timeline architecture etc..) so that experienced ms Project users can immediately see the benefit of incorporating my application into the overall run of the project.

My application doesn’t auto sync with ms Project, but instead relies on importing/exporting .xml’s to manually synchronise. Importing the xml from ms Project to my online app initially creates all the tasks and assigns them to specific users defined in resources in ms Project. The project is then ‘in work’ on the online application, edits only being made there. Edits are exclusive to Notes, Physical Percent Complete and Finish Date (perhaps this should be Actual Finish Date). The original xml is then exported with the changes incorporated, the project is then ‘not in work’ and can be imported into ms Project. At this stage a competent ms Project user (PM) would know how to structure it best. They can make sensible changes that maintain certain properties as set in stone but change others that are flexible at that time. After this re-baselining process the PM exports a new xml to reimport into the online application, with all the updates being implemented.

So it is currently my job to demonstrate this with a simple project of say 4 tasks and 4 users. But this is easier said than done for me at the moment with my limited experience with ms Project. Plus the fact that I’m using .xml edits to drive this.. the key stumbling block is setting up the ms Project file correctly to adopt the work flow that I have described.

I probably need to look at some learning materials.

Thanks,
James

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