OpenProj - Project Management Reviews

how can we convert the POD file to pdf file.??

Excellent work. It's works perfectly. Thanks!

Looks promising but indent levels do not extend past one and even then, entries appear in the wrong section. I have transferred the tasks out to excel and will look for an alternative. I would encourage you to avoid until the bugs are resolved.

Some of you might find this link to ]project-open[ - Project Management - last updated 12-12-2012 v3.5.0.1-2 h***://sourceforge.net/projects/project-open/?source=dlp

This is great. My son loves it. Thank you for your work guys!

Are there any updates available? This software have several issues!!!

Just the basics, missing any "secondary" but vital functions. The worst point is that today I had to uninstall java 7 to see I project I saved yesterday...

It's great product. But want to see more tutorials, more information, may be community forum. Also, how to change scale from days to weeks (duration of the works)?

Its an excellent tool. I haven't been waiting for this application on MAC. It makes my day. Quick question, anyone knows how to populate the entire project on GANTT viewing capacity, which allows scale to pages setup so that I can view the whole project flows? Thanks

Generally good esp as it's free - ok you can't save as a pdf but you can print to pdf if you dowload PrimoPDF or similar so really not an unsurmountable problem

Love this app

I don't remember how to activate saturdays as job days, some of my items ends in saturday and it won't let me., instead it make it finish on friday..., how do I activate saturdays?!?! PLEASE HELP!!

Just to remind everyone that you can still obtain a copy of the user guide for OpenProj at www.openprojuserguide.com. It's a 44-page Guide written in English with illustrations, screenshots and more, instantly downloadable as a PDF. The sample also gives a full list of its contents.

You can print to PDF if you install a PDF writer such as the free one I use, CutePDF Writer (www.cutepdf.com).

The product is perfectly usable if you use a "pdf printer" like pdf creator to create the pdfs. Some quirks but we use it for a the planning of a research project where some participants do not like MS. The source is available, for any willing person to correct bugs.

ProjectLibre is the updated OpenProj. OpenProj has not been updated since 2008. ProjectLibre is active and has been downloaded in 200 countries. It is also on Sourceforge and is the first major update in over 4 years! There is a community site at www.projectlibre.org * New Ribbon User Interface * Compatible with Microsoft Project 2010 * Printing * Many bug fixes

I really do not like that I cannot print it to pdf format!

Great software. Using it under Linux. Thanks.

Like Pete, I had similarly positive results at first. As a project manager who consults with numerous non-profits that are very underfunded, I thought I'd perhaps founmd a serviceable scheduling and project management alternative to MS Project. After building a very detailed project schedule over the course of a few weeks, and saving often, the file suddenly decided not to open. Couldn't open it within OpenProj, or by clicking ion the proj file name. Looking at the file in Wordpad or notepad, it looks like a mish mash of ASCII text and other characters. Don't know if a clean OpenProj file is an ASCII text file, but there was nothing that looked salvageable from a text editor. Total waste of time, which I have to eat and try rebuilding the schedule from older printed PDF samples.

At first I was very pleased with this software, it seemed to work well and for free had enough features to be very useful. However, I've just wasted 3 days work when it's decided not to open a file I saved this morning. All seemed well, I had a project laid out with around 200 tasks, I was able to see which resources were overworked at what times and shuffle things around to get best use out of the available workforce. Perfect! I saved my work, then saved a copy as a future job template which I stripped back to basics, re-saved the template and closed the program. Pleased with my work I called my boss to have a look; the main project file wouldn't open, the template opened, but when I closed it again, it asked if I wanted to save changes to the main project file, not the open template file. No matter what I do, saving it under other names, emailing to a different computer, it still thinks it's the main project file, even though it opens as the template file! And the main project file just wont open. The data is there; you can see it if you open it in notepad, but it wont open in "Openproj" I have now lost 3 days work and have to find an alternative program as I'm not going to chance this again. There are some serious bugs in this software, but absolutely no available support. By the time you reallise the problems, you've already wasted whatever time you've put in and it's too late. This software will likely frustrate you so much you go crawling to Microsoft with your credit card in hand for something that will at least not let you down at the last minute!

I tried to install OpenProject on Linux . It shows an error message.The error message is "Your Java vendor is " Oracle Corporation". To run OpenProj,you need the Sun Java implementation.The auto-detected Java Runtime used is "/usr/java/latest/bin/java".If you have a newer version,you can manualy change it by editing the JAVA_EXE property in the auto-detection file,"$HOME/.openproj/run.conf".Otherwise,to force auto-detection again you can remove "$HOME/.openproj/run.conf"." What to do ? Please Guide.

The product is open source, there is no question about it, the source is available and the licensing gives you the rights to use it and modify it. If the "Signup" message offends you, you can get the code and remove it. On the other hand the quality of the product is that great. This product might be useful for viewing and managing small projects (10 or so tasks) but my experience is that it starts failing with medium or larger projects (100 or more tasks with several resources). The program has bugs that are really show stoppers for me, the scrollbars disappear while editing POD files and making modifications. If I reassign resources instead of updating the gantt chart correctly it keeps extending the time of the task and messing up with the planning. Resource expenditure is not correctly calculated, file corruption, etc. Sadly the project is pretty much dead, it hasn't been updated in the past 2 years so I believe these bugs won't get corrected anytime soon.

If you are happy to work with a program that is not able to level by resource then this is a very workable solution. I am though desperately looking for an alternative that is able to adjust the project schedule if an allocation to a resource exceeds 100%.

Nice, thanks

Are there any updates coming?