Accessing Inserted Project Info   

Hi All,
	I am developing an addin to MS Project. The addin collects active
project info from MS Project and creates XML.
	My question is  when a project is inserted(with link option) in
another project, how to access following info of a inserted project? I
need to collect info of
	1. Project Summary Info
	2. Tasks
	3. Resources
	4. Resources Assignments

I want to collect these info without opening the inserted project
separately.
I see that when we say Save As ".xml" in MS Project, MS Project saves
all these info without opening the inserted project separately.

Thanks in advance,

date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:42:00 -0700 (PDT)   author:   unknown

Re: Accessing Inserted Project Info   

In article 
,
 snkharvi@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> 	I am developing an addin to MS Project. The addin collects active
> project info from MS Project and creates XML.
> 	My question is  when a project is inserted(with link option) in
> another project, how to access following info of a inserted project? I
> need to collect info of
> 	1. Project Summary Info
> 	2. Tasks
> 	3. Resources
> 	4. Resources Assignments
> 
> I want to collect these info without opening the inserted project
> separately.
> I see that when we say Save As ".xml" in MS Project, MS Project saves
> all these info without opening the inserted project separately.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

snkharvi,
When you say, "... inserted (with link option)...", I hope you mean 
Insert/Project and not Insert/Hyperlink or Edit/Paste Special. The 
former will provide a pointer in the master project to each individual 
subproject. The latter two will set up a direct link that is very prone 
to corruption.

As far as obtaining the subproject information you want, the insertion 
point summary line in the master project provides an all up summary of 
that subproject. For the other items on your list, the following general 
syntax should get you started.

ActiveProject.Subprojects(1).SourceProject.Tasks(1).[property]
or
ActiveProject.Subprojects(1).SourceProject.Resources(1).[property]

The assignments for either construct follows the same general syntax.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:33:53 -0700   author:   John

RE: Accessing Inserted Project Info   

This approach may also be helpful.  Rod has shown you how to directly access 
a specific subproject by use of the inserted file index.

What I do is make the assumption that I may have more than one inserted 
project and I iterate through each of the subprojects.

If ActiveProject.Subprojects.Count < 1 Then
    'base case do nothing, tell the user something....
    Exit Sub
Else
    dim sProject as Subproject
    dim bProject as Project
    For Each sProject In ActiveProject.Subprojects
       Set bProject = sProject.SourceProject
       'Code here for anything you want to do... I usually call 
functions/subroutines
    Next sProject
 End If


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"snkharvi@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hi All,
> 	I am developing an addin to MS Project. The addin collects active
> project info from MS Project and creates XML.
> 	My question is  when a project is inserted(with link option) in
> another project, how to access following info of a inserted project? I
> need to collect info of
> 	1. Project Summary Info
> 	2. Tasks
> 	3. Resources
> 	4. Resources Assignments
> 
> I want to collect these info without opening the inserted project
> separately.
> I see that when we say Save As ".xml" in MS Project, MS Project saves
> all these info without opening the inserted project separately.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>

date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:28:20 -0700   author:   Jim Aksel

Re: Accessing Inserted Project Info   

In article ,
 Jim Aksel  wrote:

> This approach may also be helpful.  Rod has shown you how to directly access 
> a specific subproject by use of the inserted file index.
> 
> What I do is make the assumption that I may have more than one inserted 
> project and I iterate through each of the subprojects.
> 
> If ActiveProject.Subprojects.Count < 1 Then
>     'base case do nothing, tell the user something....
>     Exit Sub
> Else
>     dim sProject as Subproject
>     dim bProject as Project
>     For Each sProject In ActiveProject.Subprojects
>        Set bProject = sProject.SourceProject
>        'Code here for anything you want to do... I usually call 
> functions/subroutines
>     Next sProject
>  End If
> 
> 
> -- 
> If this post was helpful, please consider rating it.
> 
> Jim
> 
> Check out my new blog for more information:
> http://www.msprojectblog.com

Jim,
Rod?

John
> 
> 
> 
> "snkharvi@gmail.com" wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 	I am developing an addin to MS Project. The addin collects active
> > project info from MS Project and creates XML.
> > 	My question is  when a project is inserted(with link option) in
> > another project, how to access following info of a inserted project? I
> > need to collect info of
> > 	1. Project Summary Info
> > 	2. Tasks
> > 	3. Resources
> > 	4. Resources Assignments
> > 
> > I want to collect these info without opening the inserted project
> > separately.
> > I see that when we say Save As ".xml" in MS Project, MS Project saves
> > all these info without opening the inserted project separately.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> >

date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:26:47 -0700   author:   John