Merlin 2.5.2 has been released into the wild along with many tweaks and fixes. Get it now while it is hot.

Change Log

New Features

• Initial beta version of the French localization added.
• In reports, users can define colors for charts or graphs in the options.
• There are now two new orderings for resource leveling.
• Implemented two separate modes for dynamic shifting. You can now specify, whether only the expected values should be dynamically shifted, or planned and expected values.

Changes

• If opening a remote project file did not work, Merlin now provides a better error description.
• Resource users are now allowed to have empty passwords.
• Activities starting on non-working times without a specified work value do not generate warnings anymore.
• The field “assigned resources” now reflects the actual ordering of the assignments.
• Some minor translation issues and typos have been fixed.
• The English and German Help files are improved.

Resolved Issues

• Some reports did not work correctly with combined projects.
• Under some circumstances Merlin could crash if the login dialog was canceled.
• If an activity group was separated into a linked project the resulting file could sometimes not be saved.
• The values in the field “Default Work” were not persistent.
• Linking a project under some circumstances wrongly modified the start date of the main project.
• Deleting linked projects could lead to exceptions.
• QuickLook previews were generated for password-protected files.
• Under some circumstances, activites could not start on certain working times.
• The report “Next Due Activities” did include groups.
• Warnings were even shown if they were turned off.
• In single page PDF export the outline header was wrongly placed.
• Under some circumstances actual values could not be cleared.
• For certain values, changing the “Given planned duration” was not possible.
• Activating a workspace did not correctly update the print settings if the print dialog had been opened before.
• Notes of linked projects did not show up in the inspector.
• Changing the resource initials did not update the “assigned resources” field in the Gantt chart.
• Finish-finish dependencies were sometimes wrongly allowed between summary tasks.
• Calendar exceptions could not be imported from .ics files.