Tag Archives: Merlin

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.

 

Merlin 2.9 update with support for OS X 10.8

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Today we’ve released a new free Merlin update. The Merlin 2.9 update brings various improvements and more stability. It is recommended for all Merlin and Merlin Server users.

How to update Merlin
How to update Merlin Server

    • Merlin and Merlin Server support new Gatekeeper and start on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion as identified software.

With Mountain Lion Apple introduces a new technology called “Gatekeeper”. Gatekeeper helps protect you from downloading and installing malicious software on your Mac, no matter where your apps come from. And it gives you even more control over which apps you install. With the standard option Gatekeeper installs only apps from the Mac App Store and apps from identified developers. Merlin and Merlin Server are now signed by ProjectWizards as an indentified developer and working with the Gatekeeper default option under OS X Mountain Lion.

We highly recommend users of OS X Mountain Lion to install this update.

Updating existing installations of Merlin Server: The formerly contained certificate is now replaced by the new one verified by Apple. Therefore the very first time you start Merlin Server, you will be asked to allow accessing Keychain for the existing certificate to be replaced. Please click on “Allow always”.

Resolved Issues in Merlin

  • Freemind HTML export was broken.
  • LDAP items with images could not be loaded.

Applescript – Split activity in completed and remaining sub tasks

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When managing a project with Merlin you create your tasks and assign them to your resources. As your resources work on their task, you as a PM update your project by entering the actual values. That means, you enter the percentage of the completed work and the actual start date. If updating the tasks in absolute mode, you can enter the actual work or remaining work and duration.

Next time the resource works on the task, and reports its progress to update the data, you enter the new ‘% complete’ and if updating the tasks in absolute mode, the amount of actual work and remaining work so far.

Some users however would like to be able to pause the works on a task, to plan the remaining work sometime later on. This is also a good idea, if wanting to vary the utilization of a resource on a task in time.  So to do so in Merlin, you would need to create two tasks. One for the first part of the works on the task, and a second for the remaining.

To quicken this procedure, we wrote an applescript sample which requires Merlin 2.8.4 or newer, and creates the two sub-activities based on the planned and actual values of the task in progress.

If interested, feel free to download, use or modify as you like.  Continue reading →

Merlin and Merlin Server: 2.8.4 Update

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Today we’ve released a new free update. The 2.8.4 update brings various improvements and more stability. It is recommended for all Merlin and Merlin Server users.

Resolved Issues in Merlin

  • Values for the field “default utilization” were not accepted under Mac OS X 10.7.
  • Logging into a project failed if the password was an email address.

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