Merlin – AppleScript installer for custom report templates

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We have a series of posts explaining how to create and modify custom report templates. You will find there descriptions on how to write report code and of course installation instructions for the offered custom templates.

That is, you download and extract the provided zip. Place the contained mrept package under the following path of your mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Merlin/Reports. In case you have no “Reports” folder please create it first and pay attention to name it exactly as “Reports”. Restart your Merlin and call File > New Report… to find the new report listed.

Or… you can use an AppleScript we’ve just wrote checking for the “Reports” folder, asking you to locate the report template (mrept file package) and installing it automatically into the correct path.

To start it for the first time after extracting it from the zip: Right click it, select to ‘open’ and click again on ‘open’.

To use it: Just drag an mrept report template onto it.

Downloadables: ‘InstallCustomReportTemplate.zip

 

 

2 thoughts on “Merlin – AppleScript installer for custom report templates”

  1. For the record, I think it is nuts that one would have to know to how write code to install a plugin for a piece of project management software that is purchased. It would be one thing if it was just install this plugin – but the extents you have to go through is way beyond the capability of the average company investing in Merlin.

  2. Hi Jennifer,

    you don’t need to know how to write code to install report templates. Merlin already contains a set of reports in its downloadable.

    Also… if you like to use any of the custom report templates we’ve posted in the tutorial
    http://www.projectwizards.net/en/macpm/merlin/merlin-do-a-little-bit-of-magic-in-merlin-reports-part-xxv

    there is no need know how to write code either. If they provide a reporting option you need, just use them.

    To install them the official way…
    -Just download and extract the provided zip from .
    -Place the contained mrept package under the following path of your mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Merlin/Reports. In case you have no “Reports” folder please create it first and pay attention to name it exactly as “Reports”.
    -Restart your Merlin and call File > New Report… to find the new report listed.

    I’ve wrote the script because I wanted to quicken this procedure for me. Feel free to go the official way 🙂

    Best regards, Vicky

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