One of the reasons why I love Merlin is because it is not stressing you into work the way it wants. It allows you to go your way. Take assigning tasks onto resources for example.
You have various possibilities to do so:
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.
What should you do, in case you would like to import the events of your iCal calendar as tasks?
You can create tasks out of the following formats:
Unfortunately iCal (.ics) is not one of them, you may however write an AppleScript creating tasks out of events of selected iCal calendars.
To make a long story short… here is such a 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. Written by Vicky Stamatopoulou For ProjectWizards Nov 3, 2010 *)
You can test Merlin and Merlin Server for free before purchasing. To do so, just download the latest versions from our Downloads page.
Merlin trials are fully functional. Just create projects with up to 40 activities and test your free Merlin demo. When testing Merlin Server, remember that it shares your Merlin projects at increments of 15 minutes and if you need to continue your tests, you need to restart its services.
When you purchase a license for Merlin Server, Â you will receive an email with a link to your license file.
To license your Merlin Server, just open the Mac OS X  ‘System Preferences’, locate Merlin Server in the ‘Other’ area, and call your  Merlin Server preference pane. Open the ‘Licenses’ dialogue and drag&drop there your MerlinServer license file. Continue reading
We get asked from time to time in support if the ‘Net plan’ view of Merlin can display the WBS of a Merlin project as a tree from top to bottom.
The answer for this is no and yes. No, as there are no options for modifying the direction of the ‘Net plan’ view graphical elements. They always get displayed from left to right.
Yes, because if one has installed OmniGraffle he or she can transfer the WBS to OmniGraffle by the use of the following SendTo script.
And yes. We have written an applescript exporting the project WBS into html. This is a sample of how the resulting HTML could look like:
With Merlin you can do schedules of your projects. You assign tasks to your resources, enter financial information (costs, budget), record issues, risks, attach files with additional information, update actual work, see scheduling warnings, call reports and lots more when working with the separate project files.
Should you manage more than one project at a time and assign your resources to more than one project, you need to coordinate their various assignments and make sure the resources are not over allocated. There is a concept for this in Merlin called… combining projects.
Combining projects is easy. Just call File > Combine Projects… and create a ‘master’ project file.
When requiring to combine project shared by Merlin or Merlin Server, open those project files over “Remote Open”.
To save a ‘master’ project, just call File > Save As…
Working with master projects… Continue reading