MSP resources are relatively poor objects, so when you are exporting from Twproject you are losing most resource data, except for names, and when importing you will get an almost empty resource record. Twproject has a notion of status distinct from duration, and MSP doesn’t. What actually happens when you are importing/exporting projects from/to MSP?įirst of all, consider that the two applications have a different underlying model of “project”. If everything goes well then follow the link (the same name of the project on MSP), and check out the structure on the Gantt editor: mpx file you have to choose the language in which the file is written. Then you have to select the file by browsing on your local disk and then press “go” button. If you want to import a root project go to “projects” then hover on Iand select “import: MS project”. The scheduling work done in Twproject gets exported exactly as it was: mpx file will be created and your browser will ask what to do with it. In order to export a project from Twproject go to the project editor of your root (or even a branch) and just press MPX format button.Ī. To prevent the error(s) from appearing and the file should open.Microsoft Project™ (a trademark of Microsoft Corporation, from here on MSP) is one of the most (un?)popular project management tools, and Twproject supports both export and import to/from it. You *may* see an additional import error, but you can click No If you add this information to your MPX file, it should stop the crash from Therefore, the MPX with the addtional information in Project's base calendar name and it should match the name in at least one of

In addition to record type 20, record type 30 also needs to specify the With record type 20 added, it'll look like this: Project's calendar name isn't identified in record 30 will cause the crash. Importing an MPX file where record type 20 is missing and where the What's in record type 30, then the crash happens. What I've found that if the file you're importing doesn't have a record typeĢ0 and if at least one of the record type 20's calendar name doesn't match For an explanation of what is happening and how to fix it, the best source is the ever helpful Adrian Jenkins who writes:

If there are some records specifying correct calendars in the file then it will crash. However, there are still other tools using it to exchange data and Project 2007 can open but not write. mpx format in favor of using xml as a standard exchange format. At least a couple versions back, Microsoft started walking away from the. Save from Excel into Excel 2000-2003 format and open that file in Project. The import appears to get hung up on some of the header information and from there you are stuck. The first one is that importing an Excel 2007 file (in the new. There are a couple of problems importing data into Microsoft Project 2007.

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