Merlin – Advanced search as reporting option

Merlin reporting system comes with a predefined report templates set. To use it, just call File > New Report… You can modify the output over the report options, or – if you are really a technical person – edit the report templates as described here

Another easier way to report, is to use the print option (File > Print) and save in a single paged PDF file. You can of course enable desired columns or disable unwanted visible columns over View > Show View Options > Columns

You may also start an advanced search to select the data you need to output. So let’s assume you want to report tasks which should start today or within the period of the next two weeks and are not yet completed.

That’s fine, just call the advanced search, and define the following as criterions:

"Expected Start" is in the next "2" weeks
"%Complete" is not "100%"
"Private" is "no"


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