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Limited time offer – Merlin 2 Network Bundle

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Merlin 2 Network Bundle combines Merlin for Mac OS X licences and the Merlin Server.

Purchase Merlin 2 Network Bundle to leverage the power of the leading professional project management software for Mac OS X, share your projects and maximize project management across a network.

Price: 999.- Euro / 1.299,00 USD / 899,00 GBP (plus VAT)
Period of sale/offer: 30th March – 31st May 2013
Offer: five Merlin 2 licenses and one Merlin server license
Buy now: http://projectwizards.net/bundle

Merlin is intuitive, easy to use and offers a variety of options to help you plan, take control, collaborate and complete your project successfully.

With adding the Merlin Server you’ll get the ultimate network landscape for enabling professional project management.
Thanks to Merlin Server you can now administer all your projects in one place. Simply start up Merlin Server and select your project folder.
Say goodbye to data chaos as all project files are now fully centralized. Let Merlin Server share the projects you create with a Merlin Mac OS X application.

Regardless of the number of projects, Merlin Server offers following three built-in network services that can be individually activated with a single mouse click.
Services:
– Publishing Merlin for Mac OS X
– Publishing Merlin to Web Browsers *
– Publish to Merlin iPhone/iPad

* This means Windows users not having Merlin can easily access and work on Merlin projects! 

Merlin – Combine projects

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There are various ways to combine projects into one master project.

Combine local Merlin projects – no Merlin Server involved:
If combining local projects of your local hard disk, you can select them all and drag onto Merlin‘s icon or double click them and select ‘combine’ or choose File > Combine Projects:

Combine shared Merlin Server projects:
If combining projects which are shared by Merlin Server, please proceed as shown here:

That is… you choose File >  Combine Projects, add the projects and open them by “remote open”. If the new master is to be shared by the same Merlin Server, save the file first on your local disk and copy it in a second step into the ‘Projects’* folder of Merlin Server.

 

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*) Or any other folder your Merlin Server shares.

Merlin – Port forwarding

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When publishing a Merlin project and want to access it over the internet, port forwarding needs to take place. Users accessing the project over the internet call the external IP  address of the router, and the router forwards connections to the Mac sharing the Merlin projects. Read here to improve your understanding to connection requests.

If your router supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) or NAT Port Mapping Protocol*, you should enable “port forwarding” for the appropriate sharing service you need yours projects to be shared for in Merlin > Preferences > Sharing … 

…priorly to enabling web sharing over File > Publish > Web > Start

Merlin will then calculate the @ symbol to contain the external IP address of the router and the @ icon will finally turn from red to blue.

In the screenshot sample above, port forwarding is enabled for web sharing (applying also for iPhone sharing) but not for project sharing. That’s fine, you don’t need to enable port forwarding for project sharing if you don’t want to allow Merlin users to remotely open your shared projects over the internet.

If however your router does not support UPNP, so you had to configure your router to do port forwarding, there is no reason to enable ’port fowarding‘ in Merlin preferences. Merlin won’t receive the external IP address of the router, as the router replies only if it speaks UPNP. And even if you enable “port forwarding” in Merlin, you still get a red @ icon when sharing. Continue reading →

Merlin Server – get the direct URL to open a shared project

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Is there a way to have a URL that takes you directly to a project shared by Merlin Server?

Just select the project in Merlin Server‘s ‘Projects’ view
click onto the ‘Link’ button to get its direct URL.

Select the URL as shown on the dialogue

and copy.
If you now enter this direct URL in a web browser, you will access the project without viewing first the start page listing other projects.

Merlin – I have lost my license, where can I find it?

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From time to time, we get in support requests like the following:

My mac is broken/stolen, I have lost my Merlin license, how can I get a new copy?

 

To request a new copy of your license key(s), please start Merlin and select Help > Lost License or use a web form we’ve specially created for this purpose.

 

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File paths on your Mac:

Installed license keys for Merlin are located in the ‘Application Support’ directory of your home folder (~/Library/Application Support/Merlin/Licenses/).

Installed Merlin Server licenses are usually in /Library/Application Support/Merlin Server/Licenses.

Free application downloads:

Should you require a new installation of Merlin or Merlin Server, just download a new copy for free as found in the downloads area.