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Merlin – secure projects and access over the iPhone or iPad app

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We have wrote in the past how to secure your Merlin projects when wanting them to be accessed over the web by a supported web browser.

Are you wondering how to proceed when requiring password protected access over the iPhone or iPad app?

The answer is… very similar to how you do for web sharing and access.
On your Mac with Merlin for Mac OS X…

  • You create a resource in case you haven’t one already in your project.
  • You enable its ‘is user’ flag and enter a password.
  • You enable the project setting ‘hide from anonymous users’ for more privacy.
  • Save your project and enable iPhone sharing.

On your Merlin app on the iPhone or iPad

  • You ‘login’ by the appropriate user and password first
  • you see Merlin Server refreshing its list up authentication
  • and tap the project afterwards to access it from your app.

For those of you preferring pictures over words, check out the following screencasts. Continue reading →

Merlin – secure projects for access over a web browser

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user_permissionsWe have described in a previous post the necessary steps for securing your Merlin projects. Pretty easily as you may already know; you either promote an existing resource to a user, or create a new resource just for the login purpose, configure its permissions in the ‘permissions’ inspector and hide your project from anonymous users.

Easy? Yes of course, but why do we mention an old post if everything is said in it? Well it’s obvious, isn’t?  What our blog post didn’t do was to provide a short screencast of these actions.

This is done here, Continue reading →