How to read User Field Definitions with MPXJ

Question

I'm using MPXJ to read projects from both Primavera and MSP and would like to read the user field definition information e.g. the field label / description, any ideas how this can be achieved ?

Answer 1

The detail you are looking for can be found by calling the getCustomFields method of a ProjectFile instance. You can either iterate through the contents of the container this method returns to see the configuration for all fields:

  for (CustomField field : projectFile.getCustomFields())
  {
     System.out.println("Field: " + field.getFieldType() + 
        " Alias: " + field.getAlias());
  }

or you can call getCustomField and pass a FieldType instance to look for the configuration of a specific field, for example:

projectFile.getCustomFields().getCustomField(TaskField.TEXT1)