Hi,

When using automation to MS Project (possibly older versions), some dates that were not set to a value returned 'NA' as a null value. 

in 2.1.0 what is the default date (or null) date for date fields?  or will all dates have a valid date?

Regards,  Bruce

Hello Bruce,

Aspose.Tasks returns DateTime.MinValue instead of null.

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Alexey Zhilin
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Hello,

how exactly is Aspose.Tasks supposed to produce usable files then? Why are the DateTime objects with DateTime.MinValue not ignored during the generation of the Project XML file?

Opening a MPP file with Aspose.Tasks and producing an XML file with it should yield the same result as saving the project as XML from within MS Project. Don't you aggree? What I get now is a project that has several conflicts, wrongly calculated task durations, wrongly calculated completion percentages and several other deviations from the original.

Do you plan to correct these issues?

thanks and best regards,

philippe der hovsepian

Hello Philippe,

All DateTime objects with DateTime.MinValue and TimeSpan objects with TimeSpan.MinValue are filtered and not stored in an XML file. If you have such problem then please provide mpp and created xml files example and we will investigate it and fix issues shortly.

Durations and percentages are not recalculated by Aspose.Tasks. It just read values from mpp file and write to xml "as is".

Actually, we have many future plans about Aspose.Tasks. If you have requests for some new features or you don't like something then please post here in the forum.

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Alexey Zhilin
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Hello Alexey,

thanks for your fast reply. I'm sorry, I'm currently working with the demo version so the dates are set to 01.01.2000 instead of DateTime.MinValue and are therefore included in the xml. However my problems with percentages (resource allocation and task completion) still occur.

Please have a look at the attached files (TestProject_MSP.xml produced in MS Project 2003 and TestProject.xml produced by loading the corresponding TestProject.mpp file and saving the project as xml, with manually removed elements containing 01.01.2000).

As you can see, the allocated resource percentages went completely haywire.

And the completed percentage for task 4 (and parent task 2) are different from the ones in the mpp file too (I've noticed that TimephasedData elements are missing in the partly completed tasks).

And the tasks start at 9:00 AM instead of 8:00 AM (the standard calendar in the xml is one hour off in comparison to the one in the mpp file)

thank you for your help and best regards, philippe

Hi philippe,

We are analyzing the problem and working on it.

Regards,

Muhammad Sabir,
Support Developer
Aspose - The .NET and Java Component Publisher

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Muhammad Sabir
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