AppleScript – I. Love. Merlin.
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 27. August 2010
I was reading a post of Eric D. Brown by the title I. Love. WordPress. It was a ”wow” effect, I just had to write in our blog here I. Love. WordPress too but I. Love. Merlin. more 
We use WordPress for our blog, and have experience from other blogging systems as well. So I am completely with Eric Brown on that. WordPress is great, but…
Merlin has an even better / warmer position in my heart. Merlin is a professional tool, one can see this at one glance…
Tags: Applescript, Merlin
Merlin – copy activities quickly into the library
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 23. August 2010
Merlin’s library is a very practical feature. You can place there project structures, elements or documents often used in your projects and find contacts of your AddressBook, Entourage or an LDAP server to use as resources in new projects.
To place new objects into your library you can use drag & drop. An even quicker way is to right (or ctrl) click your selection and call “Copy to Library”
Easy, isn’t it?
You may want to watch the relevant video on YouTube
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Tags: Library, Merlin, Merlin 101
Merlin iPhone 1.1 with support for iPad is out!
Frank Blome on 5. August 2010
The new version 1.1 of Merlin iPhone comes with support for iPhone 4 and iPad. The handling of the mobile Merlin does not change, it’s still the same ease of use. The new version is optimized for the Retina Display of the iPhone 4 and the bigger iPad display.
Merlin iPhone can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Strore. With the new update Merlin iPhone supports all versions of iPhone, iPad touch and iPad. More information about Merlin iPhone can be found on our website in the “Products” section.
Tags: iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone OS, Merlin, Merlin iPhone
ProjectWizards Announces Merlin Training in NYC August 24-25!!!
Dave Prior on 15. July 2010
I’m very excited to be able to announce that we’ve got a class scheduled in New York City on August 24 and 25th. Frank Blome and I will be teaching the 2-day class together and we will cover how to manage projects using Merlin as well as some basic project management best practices.
We’ve limited the space to just a few in order to ensure we can spend as much time as possible with the folks who attend, so if you are interested in joining us, please check out the page we have set up for US Trainings (there will be more to come) and register as soon as possible.
Tags: Training, US Training
Applescript – transferring selected structures to iCal
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 13. July 2010
It’s been a long time ago, we’ve posted an applescript sample. The script for todays’ post was initiated by a user support request. The user knows that Merlin can export or sync project and resource calendars to iCal and already uses these options, however he sometimes need to export only some selected structures to iCal and was wondering how to do so.
One possible approach would be, to right click the specific project structures, call “Save selection” out of the contextual menu, open the newly created project and export to iCal.
Another approach may also be to write a script, similar to the ones we’ve written in the past for TimeLine 3D, Things or others, transferring just this selection.
Are you interested in the script solution? Great, here you are. Enjoy the script.
To find out how to place it into your File > Send To menu, please read here more
Tags: Applescript, Export, iCal, Sync
Merlin – Importing a checklist
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 12. July 2010
Merlin is very powerful and sophisticated piece of project management software on MacOS X. It allows not only to attach checklist elements onto your projects, activities, activity groups or resources, but also supports importing such lists created and saved by other applications. To import a checklist into your project just follow the next simple steps:
- Ask for a checklist saved in .opml format.
- Create a checklist element in your project; enable the display of elements area and add a new checklist element.
- Use the elements inspector and press the ‘import’ button.
- Select the .opml file with the checklist and you are done.
Wanting to forward your checklist entries to someone not having Merlin? Simply use the export button and save in an .opml format, which can be opened by outline software.
You would like to transfer checklists from one project to another and wonder whether there is an easier way than export/import? Of course, just select the element in the elements area, copy, open your target project, select a position onto which you would like to checklist to get attached and paste.
Need a report of your currently selected checklist? Just click onto the ‘report’ button and see Merlin creating the desired report containing just the selection.
You may want to watch the relevant video on YouTube.
Tags: checklist, Export, Import, opml, Screencast
Merlin iPhone – how does it work?
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 6. July 2010
Merlin iPhone is such a great option for mobile project managers. Share your projects with Merlin for Mac OS X and the optional iPhone sharing service or use a Merlin Server in which iPhone share is build-in. As long as you have a connection to the mobile data net or WLAN hotspot, with Merlin iPhone you can access your project from anywhere.
It all sounds great to you but how does it work? Easy and straight forwards (as always in Merlin).
Check screenshots of the app in the product page, watch accompanied screencasts illustrating the functionality, read the Merlin iPhone QuickStart Guide, or test it for your own.
Wherefrom to download it? Merlin iPhone app is available in iTunes Store as free download.
Not always online? That’s fine with Merlin iPhone. You can view your project offline, and will need an online connection only when making changes and populating the new state of your project.
What about iPad or the new iOS 4? Merlin iPhone runs on iPhone 4 and on iPhone devices with iOS 4 just as well. Our developers are already working on an adjusted version to look better on the iPad or the new iPhone 4, so stay tuned.
How do I setup my router? Just proceed as explained in our blog post ‘using Merlin’s web module‘. Web and iPhone sharing are both using the same port and our configuration suggestions apply for iPhone sharing too.
Tags: iOS 4, iPad, iPhone 4, Merlin, Merlin iPhone, Merlin Server, Merlin Web, PM
Merlin, global unit for calculated durations
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 15. June 2010
From time to time we receive requests on how to set up a global unit for calculated durations. So for example:
…when planning my project in Merlin, the calculated duration of the project is
shown in a dynamic unit, i.e. day, week, month, year, depending on the
length of the activity. How do I fix it to show weeks? We mainly operate in
weeks…
Well nothing simpler than that. (more…)
Tags: Durations, Merlin, Merlin 101, Units
Merlin, time units
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 9. June 2010
Project management with Merlin on Mac OS X is easy. With Merlin you can plan tasks requiring only some seconds, days, weeks or years of your resource’s time. It all works like a charm. Merlin can handle short or long durations just as well.
To make things even easier, Merlin is implemented this way, that you don’t need to spell out the time unit. You can use the first one or two letters of the unit and expect the application to recognize it according to the list below.
- se OR sec = Seconds
- min OR mi = Minutes
- h OR ho = Hours
- d OR da = Days
- w OR we = Weeks
- m OR mo = Months
- y = Years
We’ve told you it’s easy, haven’t we?
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Photo found here, copyright Partick Hoff
Tags: Merlin, Merlin 101, Time, Units
Merlin – How to start Merlin on another localization
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 19. May 2010
Merlin is delivered in 3 localizations: English, German and French and is compatible with the Mac OS X system preferences. This means, is your Finder running in French it will also run in French. Is your Finder running in Dutch and German is listed after it but before English, it will run in German.
To change the preferred system language in French for example, just call the ‘System Preferences’ and the ‘Language & Text’ pane.
Switch to the ‘Language’ tab. Select the language you want to have as your standard language, drag&drop it before the top most entry.
If you now start Merlin, you will see it run in French. Your Finder is by the way not yet French, but it will be the next time you restart it.
We sometimes get asked, how to define the language of Merlin in English when having a French system.
Tags: Applescript, Language, Localization, Merlin
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