]project-open[ Integration: Problem in MS-Project .xml Export With Missing UID

[Frank Bergmann]

Hi!

Great work so far, keep it up!.

As promised to Marc, we have included a ]po[ - ProjctLibre integration
in the latest version of ]project-open[. This integration is supposed to
work "round-trip", which means that ]po[ can both read and write Project-
Libre format, and exporting a previously imported file won't loose data.
This interface will be included in the next ]po[ release V4.0.3.2.1, and
it is already available in our CVS server as an updat to 4.0.3.2.0.

So I've downloaded PL 1.5.beta4 and successfully installed on a Windows 7
laptop. The behavior looks pretty good so far. However, I've found one
important incompatibility with MS-Project:
The .xml export file does not include UID fields in the Assignments -
Assignment - TimephasedData section. This UID field is just a running
number in MS-Project, so it should be very easy for you to add the field
in the XML export. Here are excerpts of the two XML files:

MS-Project:

        <TimephasedData>
            <Type>1</Type>
            <UID>13</UID>
            <Start>2012-09-19T09:00:00</Start>
            <Finish>2012-09-19T19:00:00</Finish>
            <Unit>2</Unit>
            <Value>PT4H0M0S</Value>
        </TimephasedData>

ProjectLibre:

        <TimephasedData>
            <Type>1</Type>
            <Start>2012-09-17T22:00:00</Start>
            <Finish>2012-09-18T17:00:00</Finish>
            <Unit>3</Unit>
            <Value>PT8H0M0S</Value>
        </TimephasedData>

There are also differences in the start and finish dates/times, but these
didn't make any difference to ]project-open[, because ]po[ currently
ignores the timephased data.

Best regards
Frank
(Founder ]project-open[)

[Tahoeob]

Thanks Frank!