Project XML export bug

April 7, 2014 - 21:40 pm

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We've just discovered that XML files exported by Projectlibre cannot be imported directly by MS Project 2010. Taking a look at the generated XML, I noticed that it contains a <SaveVersion> element which is set to 9. However, consulting the XML format documentation on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb968654.aspx) shows that is was only introduced in Project 2007 and has only one possible value: 12 -- corresponding to Project 2007. A value of 9 would not appear to make sense.

After we manually changed the element value to 12, it could be succesfully imported into MS Project 2010.

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April 12, 2014 - 23:16 pm

Thank you for posting

Thank you very much! We are talking this weekend about departing from our ProjectLibre Enterprise work and possibly doing a new version with an improvement of MSP interaction... if we can do that then your message is helpful! We will get to this either way and hopefully soon....

hammygross

May 19, 2014 - 18:35 pm

Thanks

Thanks for the tip. XML exports can also be opened with Project 2013 too by changing the SaveVersion to 12.

Also, make sure that none of the <Name> elements of the <Task> elements in the XML file have new lines in. This also causes the import into Project to fail.

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