OpenProj/ProjectLibre Integration
You can import OpenProj/ProjectLibre schedules into ]po[ in order to extend them with time sheet management, resource management, financial tracking and other purposes.
Integration Features
This section details the various features/fields that ]po[ will read and process from OpenProj.
- Task Name:
Names are supported with UTF-8 characters and full internationalization.
In contrast to Project clients, ]po[ does not allow for duplicate task names. When finding a duplicate name during an import, ]po[ will append a random string to the task name to guarantee uniqueness.
- Resources:
If a resource assigned in MS Project is not a member of the ]po[ Employee Group, the ]po[ import wizard offers creating them during the import
- Start & Finish:
]po[ accepts the start and finish date directly.
- Task Priority:
Task priorities are stored in ]po[ and used by project schedulers like TaskJuggler etc. (future)
- Milestone:
Tasks marked as milestone in MS-Project are shown in the ]po[ "Milestones" page.
- (WBS) Type:
]po[ currently only supports numeric WBS codes (Type=0). Type!=0 will return an error message.
- WBS:
This field contains a hierarchical code (example: 2.1 for the first sub-task of the second task in the project)
- Duration:
Defines the number of working days (or hours, depending on the format) to complete the task with the assigned resources.
]project-open[ will store this value in its "estimated_units" field, multiplying the duration value with the assigned resources:
- If no resource is assigned to the task, ]po[ assumes that one resource is assigned with 100%.
- If resources are assigned to the task, ]po[ will calculate its "estimated_units" field as duration * (assignments / 100)
Example: A task of type 'Fixed Unit' with start date 9/1/2012 and end date 9/1/2012 has one resource assigned (100%) will result in 8 'Planned Hours' in ]po[
- Duration Format:
Only Days and Hours are supported as duration formats. Any other value will cause an error.
- Work:
If present, this field will overwrite the calculated Duration time.
- Actual Progress / Percent Completed:
Percent completed (task) will be imported/exported accordingly