Displaying Content in the Project Guide

The information structure and content for the Project Guide are defined by an XML document. The default XML document used for Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2003 is gbui.xml; Project Standard uses gbui_s.xml. The Project Guide 101 download includes both of these files. For more information, see Default Project Guide Files.

The essential part of the XML schema for the gbui.xml and gbui_s.xml content is fairly simple, as follows:

<element name="GBUIStructure">
   <complexType>
      <element ref="ViewChanges" maxOccurs="1" />
      <element ref="PageChanges" maxOccurs="1" />
      <element ref="GoalArea" maxOccurs="*" />
   </complexType>
</element>

To customize the Project Guide, you replace the default gbui.xml document with your organization's custom XML document that defines the custom Project Guide structure and content. This is explained in more detail in the section Customizing the Project Guide.

The following figure shows an example of how the Project Guide user interface maps to the gbui.xml elements.

Mapping the Project Guide to gbui.xml

The following topics describe each of the main elements in the gbui.xml file:

• ViewChanges Element
• PageChanges Element
• GoalArea Element