Project viewers galore

[Lee Borgea]

I've seen a large volume of mail flying around during the past year
asking if a MS Project viewer exists, free or otherwise. For those of you
who are still looking you could try one of the following products, most are
available as evaluation downloads. Alternatively you could stick to the
newsgroup FAQ in which case these products don't exist.

Housatonic produce a web viewer for MS Project, which reads the MPP file
directly, an online demo is available on their website at
http://www.housatonic.com/msprojectviewer.html

Steelray also produce 2 viewers for MS Project, both of which read the MPP
file directly, evaluation downloads are available from their site on
http://www.steelray.com/index.html

The complete Java source code for a MS Project MPP file API is also
available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpxj, though this is not for
the faint hearted.

The AdepTracker project viewer is available free of charge from
www.adepttracker.com , they also have other products that look to be good
value for money.

Another viewer is available from Seavus on
http://www.seavusprojectviewer.com/home.htm , but you have to register to
find out anything about it.

Yet another solution is available from
http://www.projectreader.com/indexeng.htm however this reader presently
only reads from projects saved as a database, though direct MPP reading is
due in their next release.

Afinion also provide a web based viewer a 60 day evaluation download is
available from http://www.afinion.com/

Cheers, Lee.

 

[kotev]

i managed to contact Seavus and i easily got hold of a
trial version of their ms project viewer, it's way ahead
from the other products that you have on the list

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Lee,

I must take issue with you. FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer, specifically
lists some of the products you enumerate and there a several othes in the
Companion pages that you don't! It is impossible to know all the products
out there, thus we have to rely on those producing them telling us and we
will include them as appropriate. We have never had any intention of
refusing to name products, even though they may be Microsoft's rivals

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Maurizio]

New version of ProjectReader has been released and now the product is
able to open MPP file format !

www.projectreader.com/downloadeng.htm

 

[afbarksd]

I must take issue with you. FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer, specifically
lists some of the products you enumerate and there a several othes in the
Companion pages that you don't!

The issue for me is whether I can read MPP files where the person using
Microsoft Project has not done anything extra, such as creating an
Excel file. The problem with "FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer" is that
its suggestions require that the Microsoft Project user do something
extra. "FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer" does not provide for people who
need to display MPP files when the Microsoft Project user has done
nothing beyond creating the MPP files.

--- Alan Barksdale ---

 

[Rod Gill]

On the mvps.org/project site there are some viewers in the companion
products page. But you will need to purchase an add on, as Project doesn't
have a stand alone viewer.