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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English language macro for French version of MS Project

I wrote a VBA procedure for a client who has the French version of Project. Besides the language difference in Project field names the macro also has some MsgBox and InputBox statements and of course comment lines in English. I could convert field…
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Set Outline Level using If/Then and Loop

I'm trying to set an outline level in MS Project using a VBA Code. I have all the information in MSProject, and would like to set the column "Outline Level" column, based on The value in "Text 1" column> I am not able to set the types of columns, as…
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Reading and Writing to a Microsoft Project 2007 from C#

Is there any way of reading and writing the data from a Microsoft Project 2007 mpp file? I have an application that reads and writes data from a Project 2003 access database file. In order for this to work, I first save the Project 2003 mpp file as…
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Trying to name a resource filter in MS Project

Good morning, I'm trying to set up a VBA automation to cycle through each resource name, and print out a single sheet overview of the entire project that uses that resource (so my guys have a personalized task list of what they need to be doing). I…
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MS Project VBA - finding the last row of the last sub project inserted in a master project

I have a simple Master plan with 3 inserted small plans as a prototype for a much larger and more complex project. I want to find out what the value in Text1 is for the last item in the master / sub project plan. I have a macro which links up…
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How can i copy a Value of a certain Column if another column has "No" in it?

Very specific question. I got a task to learn vba, but i cant really find anything for my problem. screenshot of how it looks in project Basically if the column "Sammelvorgang" says "Nein", the Column "Text7" should contain the Value of "Nr." of…
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How to export Excel predecessor data to MS Project?

I have four columns in my workbook. e.g. ID Column can be ignored. ID Task Name Resource Names Predecessors 1 Task1 Employee1 2 2 SubTask1 Employee2 3 Task2 Employee1 4,5 4 SubTask2 Employee2 5 SubTask3 Employee2 I am looking…
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How can I work with multiple Task.Assignments in VSTO MS Project?

I got a collection of 'Users' which are working on task between two dates (firstPerformance and LastPerformance) for some hours. I would like to asign that information to a task with creating asignments and setting their Start, Finish and…
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VBA - MS Project - Add space to duration field

I am receiving different project files that all need to be formatted the same. The duration field is formatted in one of them to contain no space ("50d"). I need all the project files to have a space in the duration field so they read "50 d". I've…
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How to read Microsoft Project (MPP) file in .NET Core or PostgreSQL?

How can I import Microsoft Project file (MPP) data into PostgreSQL database on Ubuntu OS directly or using .NET Core application? I read about mpxj plugin but it only supports ASP.NET not .NET Core. Is there any other option?
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Is there a way to get a subproject's seed value programmatically?

I'm currently writing a VBA macro for MS Project. I want to loop through all the tasks in an integrated master file (file that contains linked subprojects) and write the original unique ID values of the tasks. I know that inserted subprojects get a…
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Does MS Project 2007 require SharePoint & How useful is MS Project to your development team?

Lets try this one more time. I'm posting this to get 2 questions answered Does MS Project 2007 require SharePoint (I am hoping no)? Do you like MS Project for your development team - is it useful or a pain?
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MS Project - XML imported with wrong duration, Start and Finish dates

I have created a XML file to import to MS Project 2019 using Javascript. The problems I have only on duration, start and finish dates. I don't understand why MS Project changes the values if on XML is correct. Bellow the XML with correct values and…
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Integrate an Angular Web Application With Microsoft Project API

I appreciate that this is a very broad question but I would be grateful for some guidance. I need to create a planning web application which though very client specific requires many fundamental project planning demands. I wondered if there was a…
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Saving in sequence programmatically over slow connection hangs MS Project

I have noticed that when issuing FileSave and then FileSaveAs immediately after causes MS Project to hang without any error. The offending code is: Public Sub CleanXML(file As String) Dim oActiveApp As MSProject.Application =…
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