MPP Archiver

Saves a Microsoft Project XML file to Mongo and/or local JSON file

Configuration

Config File

Save this in the config/default.json file: All are optional and overridden by any command-line parameters

• input: Input (XML) filename. If this parameter does not exist, a command line parameter must be provided
• mongo: If this parameter does not exist, Mongo will not be used
  • user: User's username
  • password: User's password
  • host: Hostname or IP where Mongo is running
  • port: Mongo port (does not have a default)
  • options: Optional parameters for the Mongo connection URL
  • database: Database name
  • collection: Base collection name. All collections created will append various suffixes to this string
• json:
  • output: Path and filename for output JSON file. If this parameter does not exist (and a command line parameter is not provided), a JSON file will not be generated

Command-Line Parameters

• -V --version: Program version
• -i --input: Input (XML) filename (required unless specified in the config file; see above)
• -j --save-json: Filename to save the JSON output to
• -w --wipe: Remove any existing collections before saving the data to Mongo

Installation and Use

• git clone https://www.github.com/jolewis-ddn/mppArchiver
• cd mppArchiver
• npm i
• node archive.js (plus any parameters)

Output

• JSON file: Created by pixl-xml
• Mongo database records: Parsed JSON content.
  • Numbers and Dates are converted from Strings before saving to the database.
  • All records are tagged with the timestamp when the record was processed/saved

Modules Used

License

MIT