Merlin: Applescript

AppleScript

Is there is a way to print all notes entered in the activity view of a Merlin project at once?

Yes of course. You can enable the display of the ‘notes’ column, disable all other columns,  hide the Gantt chart, adjust the column width and the row height accordingly and print.

The easiest way what so ever would be to call File > New Report > Information Report. This report outputs all notes in your project.

Should you what to forward them to another application, you may enable the display of the ‘notes’ column and export the file as CSV.

If export is much too inconvenient for you, you can use this AppleScript. It writes the project and activity notes into a text file, which you can later on open and edit with your favorite text application to complete your project management reports.

UPDATE: We have updated the script and enabled UTF-8 encoding for the created text file. This solves an issue with non English text (i.e. German texts with special characters) and wrong encoding of these texts, which will be now correctly transferred.

3 thoughts on “Merlin: Applescript

  1. I prefer to start a project with net plan activities and milestones containing only titles, notes and dependencies. This helps in discussions with colleagues. Is there a way to display a net plan with titles, and notes that wrap around and fill the three free lines?

  2. This is not possible, sorry.
    You have 8 possible cells on a net plan etiquette.
    http://projectwizards.net/merlin/webhelp/HTML-Help.en/view_options.html#netplan

    You may enable or disable a content.
    You might define a content for the left cell on a row and leave the right cell empty. If the text does not fit completely in the left cell it will be drawn over the cell on the right, but it won’t wrap to the next empty cell on the next row.

    I forward your comment as feature request because I see your point.

    Best regards, Vicky

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