If you want to enter some exceptional working days in a Merlin project, for example when needing to plan and schedule work during the weekend, you do this in the ‘working time’ inspector.
If you need this information for the whole project, you click the top most entry in the activities views. You switch to the ‘working time’ inspector and add an exception for the specific date in the ‘exceptions’ tab. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Merlin 101
Merlin – Logo in the printout
If you require to print your Merlin project schedule and want to layout it so it can contain your logo and maybe other relevant project information, this is how to do so.
- Insert your logo into the project schedule first
- Call File > Project Settings… > Misc
- Install your logo file by a drag&drop onto the project image area. Continue reading
Merlin Server – Setup web access across networks
We have described in a previous post how to share projects for iPhones, iPads and iPod touches with Merlin Server.
This post shows how to do the same for enabling access by the web browser across networks. But a bit of theory first.
Web sharing on MerlinServer…
- uses per default port 7080 for tcp protocol.
- requires an enabled Project Sharing service.
And the router usually blocks cross networks connections if not mentioned otherwise
Now to the practical part… Continue reading
Merlin – Creating Milestones out of iCal todos
With Merlin you can create proffessional project schedules. You can export or sync your tasks to iCal and have them in you calendar application. We have posted an AppleScript showing how one could export the tasks of the current selection.
You also know how to import an iCal calendar as exceptions to your project or resource’s calendar.
Creating tasks out of an iCal calendar is also possible by an AppleScript we wrote and posted here.
But what should you do, if you have entered lots of Todos in your iCal calendar and need these in Merlin? The short answer is: “Use an AppleScript”. The longer – because it contains the script as well – is, you can modify the script we have posted for transferring iCal events as tasks to Merlin so that it additionally handles iCal Todos. As todos have no duration, we decided to define them in Merlin as milestones. To make a long story shorter again, just check the following script:
(*
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.
Version 1.0
Written by Vicky Stamatopoulou
For ProjectWizards
Nov 3, 2010
version 1.01
changed on Jan 17, 2011
changed by Vicky Stamatopoulou
info: added support for todos, they will get created as milestones
*)
Merlin – refresh resources’ address
In Merlin you can utilize contacts from Address Book, MS Entourage or LDAP server as resources for your projects. We have described in the past how this helps when working on multiple projects and require a pool with “master resources“.
The idea is simple. As a mac PM you probably already use Address Book or MS Entourage to manage your contacts, so why entering this data again and again for each and every one new project? You simply insert a contact from the library in your Merlin project and Merlin links to the contact of the source application. If you click on the icon 
or 
displayed next to the name of the resource, the relevant application will be started and the person in Address Book will be displayed. As the resources are linked to the relevant data record, all modifications you make in the source application can reflect back in Merlin.
To refresh the contact information of inserted resources, Continue reading