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Merlin: Adjusting time rulers in the Gantt chart

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Merlin displays two ruler grid levels for the time line on the Gantt chart per default for new empty projects. One in days and another in calendar weeks. Depending on the planned work values of your activities, you may want to zoom in or out the time scale. To do so, simply click the according buttons on the bottom of the window.

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Should you however need more ruler grid levels, you may define up to four. To add another grid, just click on the arrow pointing down on the right end of a grid level and select ‘Add top row’.

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Merlin Web – access and edit a project shared by Merlin Server

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This is rather basic but since we get asked from time to time in support, please bear with us if you already are familiar with it, otherwise sit back and enjoy.

How do I edit my Merlin projects in the web browser? I share them over my Merlin Server.

Editing your Merlin projects on the web is easy.

  • Once you know their address (in this case the Merlin Server’s address) just use the address on a supported web browser*.
  • Merlin web shows no inspector, you edit the values in the shown columns directly.
  • Expected columns contain automatically calculated values, are thus not editable.
  • To edit your schedule use the column set ‘Time Planing’ and edit the ‘given planned… dates’. You can use the mini calendar or type the appropriate dates.
  • To update your schedule use the column set  ‘Project Reporting (Percent)’; or ‘Project Reporting (absolute)’ depending on the reporting mode you want to use.
  • To link or indent activities  use the according buttons.
  • Don’t forget to save your changes.

You may want to check the screencast showing how to enable Merlin Server, and access or edit the project in Safari afterwards: Continue reading →

Merlin – secure projects and access over the iPhone or iPad app

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We have wrote in the past how to secure your Merlin projects when wanting them to be accessed over the web by a supported web browser.

Are you wondering how to proceed when requiring password protected access over the iPhone or iPad app?

The answer is… very similar to how you do for web sharing and access.
On your Mac with Merlin for Mac OS X…

  • You create a resource in case you haven’t one already in your project.
  • You enable its ‘is user’ flag and enter a password.
  • You enable the project setting ‘hide from anonymous users’ for more privacy.
  • Save your project and enable iPhone sharing.

On your Merlin app on the iPhone or iPad

  • You ‘login’ by the appropriate user and password first
  • you see Merlin Server refreshing its list up authentication
  • and tap the project afterwards to access it from your app.

For those of you preferring pictures over words, check out the following screencasts. Continue reading →

Merlin & Merlin iPhone – how to share projects for iPhone

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publishIn Merlin documentation, online help and various other web spaces one can read how to share projects for the iPhone when using Merlin for Mac OS X. The procedure is straight forwards. You open the projects in Merlin for Mac OS X, you call the publishing dialog by a click onto the yellow horn symbol, and start iPhone sharing.

  1. In case both Mac (with Merlin sharing the project) and iPhone are logged into the same LAN, you may use on the iPhone the Merlin *Server* automatically discovered over Bonjour and shown in the Servers list of Merlin iPhone app.

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Merlin – secure projects for access over a web browser

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user_permissionsWe have described in a previous post the necessary steps for securing your Merlin projects. Pretty easily as you may already know; you either promote an existing resource to a user, or create a new resource just for the login purpose, configure its permissions in the ‘permissions’ inspector and hide your project from anonymous users.

Easy? Yes of course, but why do we mention an old post if everything is said in it? Well it’s obvious, isn’t?  What our blog post didn’t do was to provide a short screencast of these actions.

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