Presales Technical Question

Aspose.Tasks Product Family
1

We're potentially interested in your Aspose.Tasks for .NET, but before we can make a decision, we need to know if it supports writing to MPP format. Your website gives conflicting information on this, so could you please clarify the following statements; moreover, in the what's new section, I see a post from April 27th of this year that indicates the write functionality of MPP files may be very limited.

"Aspose.Tasks for .NET...enables .NET applications not only to read Project® documents in MPP and XML formats but also to write Project® documents in XML format without utilizing Microsoft Project®."

"Aspose.Tasks for .NET enables you to read, write and modify Microsoft Project® documents, MPP projects (native MS Project 98 - 2003, 2007 format), and XML format (MS Project 2000 – 2003, 2007 supported).

"The link to the post I referred to is: `http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.tasks-for-.net/archive/2010/04/27/project-summary-information-for-mpp-document-writing-custom-properties-read-and-write-support-added-in-aspose-tasks-for-net.aspx`

We specifically need all of the following features to their full fidelity, and we're not sure if your product is able to meet our expectations.

Create new MPP file
Set Name
Set Title
Set Author
Set Company
Edit the Base Calendar
Edit Columns
Edit Bar Styles
Edit Timescale
Add Line Items
Set Non Working Days
Save MPP file

2

Hi,


Thanks a lot for your interesting in Aspose.Tasks.

Unfortunately, Aspose.Tasks does not allow you to create a new MPP file from scratch. You can edit just a few fields in existing MPP and save the result as a new file or rewrite existing now.

In fact, nobody creates MPP from scratch, MS Project uses Global template or some others to create a new project. We are working hard to implement the feature but I don’t think that we can fit your requirements in nearest future. From all your list you can edit Name, Author, Title and Company only now. We are going to extend the supported fields in each release.

Sorry for inconvenience.
3

Can you clarify that after making changes to an mpp file that was opened, that the file you save back will be native mpp?

Thanks!

4

Hi,


Yes, you can save updated file in MPP format but only common project properties will be updated, like project save date, title, author, start date etc in MPP format. You still can not add new task, change duration or so on, we are still working on this.

Sorry for your inconvenience.