Dependencies do not seem to be exported when you export as an Excel XML 
file. Dependencies are exported when exported as a MLO XML file. The 
problem is it is very difficult to parse the MLO XML file within Excel or 
otherwise to make reports.

-Charles

On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 2:58:42 AM UTC-6, Martin Bendig wrote:
>
> Perhaps using the data tab in Excel to import your exported data could be 
> a part of your solution. 
>
> After exporting your MLO data open a new Excel file workbook, click on the 
> "data" tab and choose to get external data from "other sources". Choose XML 
> format and select your XML file. (I just hit "ok" in the next two dialogues)
>
> Then your data should appear in the sheet as expected. You could build 
> your dashboard, graphs etc. on a new sheet in this workbook (not directly 
> in the exported file!).
>
> Whenever you replace the previous XML export file contents by overwriting 
> the old file with a new export (keep the location and filename exactly the 
> same), you just need to click the "refresh" button in the data tab to 
> refresh the data in your workbook. This semi-automatically replaces the 
> data in the data sheet,but does not modify your other sheets.
>
> Unfortunately I did not see a kind of unique task ID in the export, that 
> could be very useful for further database operations. The "task name" 
> column could contain unique identifiers, but in my case I modify the task 
> names rather often.
>

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