Import MS Project task to Outlook calendar or Task

kapil4dynamics

How i can Import MS Project task to Outlook calendar or Tasks ? If any body does so can give some idea. I did try thru excel but it gives some error or other.

kine

Why the post is marked as Solved? I think better will be to ask on some Project forum... ;-)

kapil4dynamics

Yeah actually i did by using excel so it is solved as well and not as well, but no point in keeping it in unanswered here . So thought to mark it as solved. But i thought somebody wud have tried so :-$ .

ssingla

kapil4dynamics wrote:

Yeah actually i did by using excel so it is solved as well and not as well, but no point in keeping it in unanswered here . So thought to mark it as solved. But i thought somebody wud have tried so :-$ .

Can you post the process so other might get benefit from it.

kapil4dynamics

yeah but it is two step process and applicable if ur appointments or task are complete day long, i mean 8 hrs.

U will first export the data from MS Project in form of CSV file and then use task import (both are default features in both the products). While importing u can map the field taken out by Project file to tasks of outlook means date of tasks will be mapped to starting date , u can choose what with what. But the issue which i encountered was it brings data very well onlt if it is for complete day or may be i cudn't discover more.

If u want hr by hr appointments stuff then u will have first create ur MS project file as detailed as possible, Which i am sure i won't. 8)

And as per suggestion of Kine i did ask in some other forum and came to know some applications (as add-on) are available to do it hr by hr and capture other details as well.

Yeah one more thing by default MS outlook can populate ur project as detailed as u want (means vice versa is available). I think i should be able to discover some more ways and will update here.