Questions tagged [ms-project]

Microsoft Project is a tool to help plan projects and track progress against that plan

Microsoft Project is a software tool for planning projects at granular level and tracking progress against that plan. You can:

  • plan projects
  • create teams
  • create resources and manage their working time
  • manage tasks and allocations of resources to tasks
  • create timesheets
  • track work progress (actuals)
  • track project costs

and much more in a single intuitive interface.

This tag is for programming questions related to the use of . General questions about MS Project use should be referred to superuser.com.

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Office-ui-fabric-core some icons are not showing

I am building office addins for Project. It is really weird that even though I am using proper icon names some icons are not showing Followed everything from the official documentation…
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How to create a custom ribbon tab in MS Project 2016?

I have two VBA macros that create a custom tab in MS Project 2013. The three macros are: Private Sub Project_Open(ByVal pj As Project) AddEVMRibbon End Sub Private Sub removeEVMRibbon() ribbonXml = "
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Slow VBA macro writing in cells

I have a VBA macro, that writes in data into a cleared out worksheet, but it's really slow! I'm instantiating Excel from a Project Professional. Set xlApp = New Excel.Application xlApp.ScreenUpdating = False Dim NewBook As Excel.WorkBook Dim ws As…
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SharePoint task lists VS. Enterprise project in PWA

We can add project in PWA in two way :SharePoint task lists & Enterprise project Project Web App can now include SharePoint task lists in the Project Center, to support a transition from lightweight project management to a more mature enterprise…
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Parse XML, date formats (PT0H0M0S,PT2920H0M0S)

I'm trying to parse an xml-file exported from MS Project 2013 using python and it contains the following data: 1 4628 2014-09-22T08:00:00 2015-09-22T08:00:00
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Embedding my .NET control in MS Project 2003

I need to extend MS Project's functionality for my company, so I would like to embed some .NET GUI controls into Project. The plan is that my controls save the user input into my custom DB tables, but I do have to bind them to tasks, current user,…
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How to share image files across projects in one solution in visual studio 2012?

I have a solution with multiple projects in it. And I have lots of pictures which two or three projects would need them. How can I add these images once and share them across all the projects in the solution?
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MS Project data in SQL Server

I have been given the task to Load all our company's project data from MS Project into SQL Server to be able to create reports and dashboards from the project data. I know you can export a specific projects data into a access database, but every…
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Reading .mpp file from Python 2.7

I need to read Microsoft Project Plan (.mpp file) from Python application running on Python 2.7. Not getting ANY resources or pointers on the web for the same. Any ideas?
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Is there any way to connect to Microsoft Project Server via a C# Application?

What would you do if you had to write a C# Application which would need to borrow Tasks and Projects from Microsoft Project? The purpose is writing a C# Application which complements several features of Microsoft Project. For example I want my…
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PSI - Statusing Web Service - Results not as expected

I'm trying to update Status information on assignments via Statusing Web Service (PSI). Problem is, that the results are not as expected. I'll try to explain what I'm doing in detail: Two cases: 1) An assignment for the resource exists on specified…
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Sync TFS Group from MS Project to TFS

Is it possible to synchronize a work item in a project plan in MS Project that it's Assigned To field is set to a TFS group? I know this works with AD groups, for instance: Assigned To: Administrators -> works for AD groups Assigned To: [My Team…
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Automatically convert a MindMap to another app (e.g. MS Project)

Here is the situation: We ran a brainstorming session to find all the tasks we will have to achieve for our project Now, I want to create a Gantt Planning (for instance) with all these tasks We already built a MindMap with Xmind (I sometimes use…
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MS Project changing Assignment's work values when adding new ones via VBA

Got a problem with VBA using MS Project 2007. I have a Task Task with 2 Assignments, including the Resources Foo (2 days of work) and Bar (5 days of work). Task is set to fixed work. Now, when adding additional or removing Assignments manually…
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MS Project Delete Custom Fields Dialog Opening After Running Code

I have tool that's part of a VSTO add-in for MS Project that clears data out of an MS Project file that the user chooses. It uses methods such as Application.CustomFieldDelete(), Application.CustomFieldPropertiesEx(), Application.BaselineClear(), …
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