I’m using the latest version of Aspose Tasks (8.7) to read a P6XML file and then parse the data but the Prj.StartDate and Prj.Finish date values retrieved via project.Get() are all coming back as 01/01/0001, in fact all of the project date properties come back like this. Is this a bug in the library or is there in fact a different way to get to these project date properties that is not documented (I’ve not been able to find anything anywhere as yet)?
The dates on tasks seem, so far, to be read correctly so it’s just the project level.
Any help / advice would be greatly appreciated as I need to get this working ASAP.
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This is a fully licenced version, as I said the dates for tasks are coming through ok, it’s just the dates for the project which are attributes called “PlannedStartDate”, “ScheduledFinishDate” and others. For whatever reason, these values in the P6XML file are not being translated into the Prj.StartDate and Prj.FinishDate properties when the xml file has been read into a Project object.
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. Please share your sample Primavera XML file with us so that we can investigate this issue at our end and assist you further.
We have further investigated this issue at our end and have logged it as TASKS-34231 in our issue tracking system for further investigation by our product team. This seems to be a reading bug while reading Primavera XML files. We’ll notify you here once there is some information available in this regard.