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Open a Microsoft Project plan in ESM

Read a Project .xml straight into a schedule, tasks, links, progress and people intact, drawn in the browser, and write it back out again, all with nothing sent to a server

importMSPDI · exportMSPDI

This reads a Microsoft Project XML file straight into a schedule, tasks, links, progress and people intact, draws it in the browser, and writes it back out, all with nothing sent to a server. It lets you open and save real Project plans in the page, so existing plans are not locked away in one tool.

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This is the ES module version. The grid is imported straight from a CDN as a module, the same configuration as the vanilla tab without a global script tag, so it drops into any bundler or a bare module script.

The configuration

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@toclocoinc/lattice-grid@1.71.0/lattice-grid.min.css">

<div style="margin-bottom: 10px">
  <button id="save">Save as Project .xml</button> <span id="status"></span>
</div>
<div id="plan" style="height: 420px; overflow: auto"></div>

<script type="module">
  import { createGantt, importMSPDI, exportMSPDI } from '@toclocoinc/lattice-grid/modules/gantt';

  // importMSPDI reads a Project .xml into a { tasks, dependencies, resources,
  // projectStart, calendar } model: the task tree, typed dependency links with
  // their lag, per-task progress and the people on each task.
  const model = importMSPDI(xml);   // xml: the text of a Project .xml document
  document.getElementById('status').textContent =
    'Read ' + model.tasks.length + ' tasks and ' + model.dependencies.length + ' links.';

  const gantt = createGantt({
    tasks: model.tasks,
    dependencies: model.dependencies,
    resources: model.resources,
    projectStart: model.projectStart,
    calendar: 'weekends',
    autoSchedule: true,
  });
  gantt.mountSplit(document.getElementById('plan'), {
    gridWidth: 300, rowHeight: 34, height: 420, zoom: 'day',
    nonWorking: 'weekends', showArrows: true, showProgress: true,
  });

  // Write the plan back out as a Project file, so a round-trip keeps the tasks,
  // typed links and assignments intact. gantt.toMSPDI() is the same over the plan.
  document.getElementById('save').addEventListener('click', () => {
    const out = exportMSPDI({
      tasks: model.tasks,
      dependencies: model.dependencies,
      schedule: gantt.schedule,
      resources: model.resources,
    });
    const url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([out], { type: 'application/xml' }));
    const a = document.createElement('a');
    a.href = url; a.download = 'plan.xml'; a.click();
    URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
  });
</script>