Re: [Planner Dev] MSP2Planner

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Kurt Maute wrote:

> Ok, here's the scoop:
>
> Properties:  I tried creating some custom properties on the MSP side, but they weren't included in the msp.xml file when I saved it, so that one's out.
>
> Phases:  MSP doesn't seem to have an equivalent.
>
> Resource Groups:  Exist but the value in converting is dubious given the level of effort needed.
> MSP offers nothing more than a text field on the resource to denote the group, and group names aren't stored anywhere but on the individual resources, so we'd be trying to do a many to one conversion (similar to the calendar day type issue), which is difficult to do with xslt.
> After some digging, it looks like it could be done by using a variable to hold a result tree fragment describing the groups, and then use the node-set() function to allow a lookup when associating the resources with the groups (since planner does it by number, not by name).  The catch is that node-set() is part of the exslt extension set, and I'm not sure if libxsl can handle that.
> So bottom line on this one is I'd like to get what we've got integrated into planner and then I can play around with Resource Groups and Calendars and see if it doesn't break.

It sounds like what you have at this point will be very useful for a lot 
of people!

Like I've said before, if someone wants to take a look at integrating 
this as a planner plugin, I can give some hints. I most likely won't 
have much time to do this myself at the moment.

/Richard

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