Exporting to Microsoft Project

You can export projects, versions and issues displayed in WBS Gantt-Chart as XML files that are readable in Microsoft Project by clicking Tools ⇒ MS Project export on the operations bar.

This feature supports exporting hierarchies and dependencies (including lags), as well as several fields.

The correspondence table between the Jira and Microsoft Project fields is provided below.

WBS Gantt-Chart for Jira	Microsoft Project field	Notes

WBS Gantt-Chart for Jira	Microsoft Project field	Notes
Summary	Task name
Assignee	Resource name	Makes the assignee's username and units as the output. If the units is 0, Microsoft Project specifies the duration of the task as 0 days as a default. Therefore tasks with no milestones and 0% units are exported with a 1% units. If square brackets are used for the full name of the assignee, convert to parentheses. In Microsoft Project, you cannot use square brackets for resource names.
Units	Resource name
Start date	Start date
Finish date	Finish date
Baseline start date	Standard start date
Baseline finish date	Standard finish date
% done	% complete	Uses the value of the field configured as "% done" in WBS Gantt-Chart for Jira However, in Microsoft Project, the % completion rate of a summary task is automatically calculated including accumulated % completion of child tasks as well. Therefore the value shown may differ from % done in WBS Gantt-Chart for Jira.
Due date	Deadline

Limit

The export process will time out if it is not completed within 30 seconds.

Therefore, timeouts may occur when exporting large Gantt-Chart with many issues.