Mit Merlin kann man professionelle Zeitabläufe erstellen. Diese lassen sich exportieren oder mit iCal synchronisieren und als Kalender weiterverwenden. Es existiert bereits ein AppleScript welches den Export von selektierten Vorgängen erlaubt. Damit lassen sich Teile eines Projekts in iCal als Kalender verwenden.
Was tun, wenn man aber Kalendereinträge aus iCal wieder als Vorgänge in Merlin einfügen möchte?
Merlin kann aus den folgenden Formaten importieren:
MS Project (.mpx, .mpp, .xml)
OmniOutliner (.ooutline, .oo3)
OmniPlan (.omniplan)
NovaMind (.nmind)
MindManager (.mmap)
Merlin 1 (.merlin)
Merlin 2 (.xml)
Text files (.txt, .csv, .tsv)
OPML files (.opml)
Leider gehört iCal (ics-Format) nicht dazu. Trotzdem kein Problem, denn wir haben ein entsprechendes AppleScript für Sie geschrieben:
(* This script requires iCal. It prompts the list of your iCal calendars for you to select the calendar out of which new tasks should be created in Merlin. It writes in the top most opened Merlin project. Written by Vicky Stamatopoulou For ProjectWizards Nov 3, 2010 *)
--------------------------- property CalendarSelectionMessage : "Which calendar should be transferred to Merlin?" property EventsImportMessage1 : " events found in calender " property EventsImportMessage2 : ". Are you sure you want to import them all?" property DoneMessage : " tasks created. Please enable 'Given Planned Earliest Start' column, sort by it and adjust project's start date if neccessary." property ErrorMessage : "There were no tasks in the calendar, so there are no new tasks created." tell application "iCal" activate set theCals to title of calendars set theCal to choose from list theCals with prompt CalendarSelectionMessage without multiple selections allowed if theCal is not false then set myCal to item 1 of (calendars whose title contains theCal) set TheEvents to events of myCal if (count of TheEvents) > 0 then display dialog ((count of TheEvents) & EventsImportMessage1 & title of myCal & EventsImportMessage2) as text set I to 0 repeat with AnEvent in TheEvents tell AnEvent set ASummary to summary set AStart to start date set AnEnd to end date end tell tell application "Merlin" set theAct to make new activity at end of activities of root project of the first document tell theAct set title to ASummary set given planned start date min to AStart set given planned end date min to AnEnd delete given planned work end tell end tell set I to I + 1 end repeat tell application "Merlin" activate display dialog I & DoneMessage as text buttons {"Ok"} end tell else display dialog ErrorMessage buttons {"Ok"} end if end if end tell