Merlin – Do a bit of Magic in Reports – Part XVII

Those of you who have checked our new post series about “Merlin report templates” know by now…

Now let’s do some magic with the reports.


Resources Time allocation to various tasks and subtasks

If you would like to report time allocation of your resources onto tasks and subtasks of your project, this is a custom report template to use.

It lists all tasks and subtasks of your project with expected or actual work and also a distribution of work to assigned resources.

You may check contained ‘MERTimeAllocation.py’, “MERTimeAllocation.wbl” to see how we ask for all task rows with hierarchy, iterate in master resources, collect their planned or actual work to cumulate those values for activity groups, how we convert them to working days and finally output them for the report.  Feel free to modify this custom report further as you require for your needs.

An output sample:

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Merlin – Do a bit of Magic in Reports – Part XVI

Those of you who have checked our new post series about “Merlin report templates” know by now…

Now let’s do some magic with the reports.


Output Project’s WBS
We have posted here in the past ways to display the WBS of a Merlin project.

If you prefer using a report template instead of AppleScripts, feel free to use following custom report template we present hereafter. It lists per default up to 3 levels of the WBS, ignores assignments and milestones, shows the project objective if existing and  resources. Optional you may enable the view of milestones and limit the shown levels.

You may check contained ‘ProjectWBS.py’, “ProjectWBS.wbl” or “Info.plist” to see how we ask for items on the various levels, or how we iterate in their properties for the output.
Feel free to modify this custom report further as you require for your needs.

Credits for the CSS and other resources used: SlickMap CSS was created by Matt Everson of Astuteo and is licensed for free.
An output sample:

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Merlin – Do a bit of Magic in Reports – Part XV

Those of you who have checked our new post series about “Merlin report templates” know by now…

Now let’s do some magic with the reports.


Report Events
To report events recorded in your Merlin project, you may customize the Elements area, click an Event row and call File > Print > PDF…

Should you like a report template, here is one outputting non private Events defined in your Merlin project.

Feel free to check the contained python file ‘MEREventsReport.py’, “MEREventsReport.wbl” or “Info.plist” to see how we ask for elements of kind ‘Event’, or how we iterate in their properties for the output. Feel free to modify this custom report further as you require for your needs.

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MERLIN – DO A BIT OF MAGIC IN REPORTS – PART XIII

Those of you who have checked our new post series about “Merlin report templates” know by now…

Now let’s do some magic with the reports.


Report element costs by type
Should you choose to record costs on elements of Merlin projects and define the cost type, you may want to have a report outputting costs by type.

So you need to get first all elements of a project. Following python method does so, excludes private elements…

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MERLIN – DO A BIT OF MAGIC IN REPORTS – PART XII

Those of you who have checked our new post series about “Merlin report templates” know by now…

Now let’s do some magic with the reports.


Report billable costs entered on elements
Costs entered on elements may or may not be billable to your customers. This report may output such costs in a table.

So you need to get first all elements of a project. Following python method does so and excludes private elements.

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