From: mike 


If you want HTML output, you need to purchase the MS Project Server
version.   It appears that Microsoft thinks that, unless you have
multiple people working in MS Project on a project, you have no interest in
HTML output formats.

It is just another in a continuing series of customer annoyances so that
Microsoft can attempt to increase its revenue.

Eventually Microsoft's shareholders are going to get tired of this:
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=MSFT&t=5y&q=l&l=off&z=l&c=AAPL&p=s&a=v&p=s


  /m


On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:27:28 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>http://weblog.infoworld.com/lewis/archives/2007/06/more_microsoft.html
>...
>
>"And so it was that today I tried to publish a project plan, developed in
>MS Project, in HTML format. It was a nice little feature in the previous
>version of Project. Now it's gone.
>
>But never fear, because ... Project's Help system says it best:
>
>Microsoft Office Project 2007 does not support the ability to save a
>project file as a Web page. Instead, you can save a project as a more
>flexible XML file. This enables you to apply any style sheet to the XML
>file.
>
>Got that? One problem: Unless you're willing to program one of these style
>sheets, you can't do anything useful with the XML file, like sharing it
>with other people so they can view it in their browsers.
>
>That's right: Internet Explorer (for example) won't even open the file for
>viewing.
>
>Aside from that it's a Great Leap Forward."
>...
>
>  This is just like the great rocket science erector set theory in the
>migration from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005: The fundamental
>capability to "create comment web pages" of the source code
was yanked and
>replaced with a do-it-yourself alternative: every developer out there in
>the world who wants source code documentation has to roll their own
>XML-XSLT translation package.   Granted, 90% of developers are going to
>customize this to each project, but why not have at least a template to
>start from?
>
>  To do that to Visual Studio to devs is one matter - to pull that trick on
>Project users; who probably never wrote a line of XML or XSLT code in their
>life is ludicrous.

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