LabView 8.2 to Read/Write data to Microsoft Project 2007

[Branson]

Hey,

I was just curious if anyone has tried this, or has tips on reading projects out of MS Project.  My goal (i think) is to make a simple timesheet for our company.  My first thoughts were to read the projects and put them in a drop down box, so that when people go to fill out their timesheet, they can apply time to those projects on the days that they worked on them.  Then once the data is collected, have a supervisor appove the timesheet.  Once the timesheets have been approved, create another vi that would input the timesheet information back into the MS Project under the corresponding projects.

Feasible?  or Useless?

Thanks for the feedback, if there is any

Branson 

[smercurio_fc]

Feasible? Probably, though you'd have to delve into lots of ActiveX. Though, does MS Project 2007 save its files as XML?

Useless? Probably. I would think it would probably be easier to do this within Project. The LabVIEW method would require that everyone install the LV Run-Time Engine.

[Branson]

I am able to export a MS Project file into an XML format, yes.  And when I tried to open the XML project after saving it, it asked me if I wanted to Import - as a new project, append the data to the active project, or merge the data into the active project.

Maybe it's possible extract the information via an exported project XML file.  Then create an XML for merging back into the active project?