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Merlin 2.5.2 is out

Administrator on 6. March 2008

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.

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