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:
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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
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