Web Page Generation after upgrade to MSP07

[John_JXL]

Hello, I have just upgrade from MSP03 (Standard) to MSP07 (Professional) and
am trying to re-use some existing export maps I had set up previously to
generate web pages.

However I understand that with 07 you can no longer generate a web page but
only an .xml file. If I select .xml as an option, the export wizard does not
appear and the entire file is saved rather than the specific report I want to
save (based on the export maps)

Is there any way around this? Can I re-use the existing export maps I
have created in 03 in the latest version to generate an .html page?

I can see the export maps have been copied across correctly as they are in
the global.mpt file.

Thanks,
John.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

John --

Unfortunately, there is no way to use the export Maps to save a project as
an HTML file in Microsoft Project 2007. And saving to XML works exactly as
you described it, which is no solution to your problem, unfortunately. I
know of no way around this limitation. Hope this helps.

 

[John_JXL]

Dale, thanks for your advice - yes there doesn't seem to be an obvious
workaround to this problem.

After looking into this a bit more, the best solution I came up with is to
generate as a pdf file (as long as users have pdf readers the end result is
fairly similar)

I did look at generating the table as a text file and then merging the
result into an html page using Front Page, but this got too messy.

On a previous post there was mention of a workaround, but this link doesn't
seem to work anymore unfortunately, so for the moment I'll have to stick with
the pdf solution.

Thanks,
John.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi John,

There are a number of viewers available, like Housatonic's, that are listed
in FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer. FAQs, companion products and other useful
Project information can be seen at this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[John_JXL]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the links - I'll have a look.

In the short term the pdf solution does seem to be working (surprisingly)
well and the quality is actually better than you get from sending the output
to a web page - plus it is easier (hit the "print" button only rather than go
through the export map wizard).

Thanks,
John.