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Microsoft Project to dotProject Importer
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Date: 10 May, 2007 - 11:05

In the last few months, I've received quite a bit of feedback and tips on the Microsoft Project Importer. One of the first and biggest had nothing to do with functionality and everything to do with impropriety. As of this release (v1.4), the Microsoft Project Importer will now be known as simply the "Project Importer" and "Microsoft Project" will only be used to describe its capabilities. This name change is for two reasons. First, to preemptively head off any potential legal problems and second, it more closely describes the planned future of the tool. Stay tuned for that one. Now, on with the show...

This is a major update to the Project Importer in terms of functionality, usability, and code quality which is why I chose to skip the public v1.3 release. It is still not perfect, but I think you'll be happy with the results.

To get your very own copy of the module, simply download it here: Project Importer v1.4.

A full feature/fix list is included in the package, but here are the highlights:

  • Most importantly, the security sentinal from core dotProject was added to prevent unauthorized access via the filesystem. This breaks compatibility with all dotProject releases prior to 2.1-rc1. If you are using any of the 2.0.x versions, you cannot use this version of this module and should instead use v1.2.
  • Now, changing a user's assignment to zero removes them from the task completely. Previously, you'd have to go back and remove them from each task.
  • Previously, if a task had no assignees the import process would generate an error. It now checks the array size before attempting to iterate over it.
  • Now you can select a Project Status and Project Owner prior to import. This will help get your information organized that much faster.
  • Modified the preview screen to warn the user if a username is below the minimum length set in their dotProject configuration. If the username is smaller than the minimum length, the newly created user will not be able to log in.
  • Modified the preview screen to warn the user about permissions if the module is about to create a new Company.

Michael Ford of Proteus, Dennis Connolly of IEE, and Ben Sutherland of Protoscape each contributed feedback and suggestions to features and fixes in this release. As always, if you have any feedback, comments, suggestions, or large sums of money, feel free to share: keith@caseysoftware.com

The previous release is still available and fully compatible with the dotProject v2.0.x series: MS Project Importer v1.2


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correct integer value: \'\' for column \'task_milestone\' at row

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 10 June, 2007 - 03:49.

I am new to this, but have tried all i know, and keep getting errors such as this, when importing a project 2003 xml.

i think it's something to do with incompatibility to either php5/mysql5? i also get incorrect decimal value errors etc.

any insight?

thanks for this great module!

XML Issues

Submitted by Keith Casey on 11 June, 2007 - 08:07.

I've gotten one other report of similar errors and it seems to be due to the fact that when the values are not being parsed from the XML correctly, they come across as nulls and error out as you've seen.

I am rolling a new release for later this month that will resolve this. In the meantime, adding an isset() check to the relevant variables is a reasonable patch.

more xml issues

Submitted by sielnmen (not verified) on 4 July, 2007 - 16:15.

excuse me for my english... hi, i'm a mexican programmer and in my workplace dotproject is going to be used as an alternative to microsoft project. everything is ok, until we tried import xml from project 2003, there were many errors like those written lines up.

here we have many projects in project 2003 and it will be amazing if we could import them to dotproject with you tool

we have waiting your next release.. what day will be available this one ?

good day !

more xml issues -2nd part :-O

Submitted by sielnmen (not verified) on 4 July, 2007 - 16:50.

sorry, i've forgotten say versions what we are working...

- Apache 2.2
- PHP 5.2.3
- MySQL 5.0
- dotProject 2.1-rc2
- projectimporter-v1.4
- SO linux & winxp

XML Issues

Submitted by Keith Casey on 5 July, 2007 - 05:26.

Thanks for the information. There's also been an error reported with accented characters. I have a few example files and hope to have an updated release out in the next 10 days or so.

Project Importer Update

Submitted by Keith Casey on 13 July, 2007 - 13:42.

There's a new update coming out on Monday the 16th. This issue should be resolved.

How to import "Project Importer v1.4" to dotproject

Submitted by velmurugan (not verified) on 21 January, 2009 - 00:31.

Hi,

How to import "Project Importer v1.4" in dotproject V2.1.2.please help me.

Thanks,Vel

Importing to dotProject v2.1.2

Submitted by Keith Casey on 21 January, 2009 - 08:02.

That's easy, don't use v1.4 of the Importer.

You'll want to use the last Project Importer version for dotProject

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