How Do I Configure my SFTP Account in Merlin Project?
Merlin Project allows you to access server supporting SFTP, SMTP or WebDAV and combine them to publishing actions.
To configure your SFTP account
- Call from the menu Merlin Project → Preferences and select Accounts.
- Click on the + symbol and select the protocol SFTP.
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- Enter the particular server’s credentials on the right-hand side.
Port: Merlin Project will fill the accounts with default port values; i.e. port 22 for SFTP. Verify the port your server is configured to use and edit the port information if needed.
Path: You can enter an absolute or relative path for the Path. Merlin Project will use this information when publishing. In our sample we used an absolute path for the fictive folder called eftepe.
Connection status: Make sure your connection status shows a green dot. If the credentials are incomplete Merlin Project will report it. Are the credentials wrong or the server is temporarily offline, the connection status will show a red dot.
Should you have connection status issues, verify your Server Address, Port, Path, User name and Password credentials using an sftp client.
Use Cases
Upload the published content on the top level of the SFTP Server Account
You created a publisher for export and selected the SFTP Account.
To upload the published content on the top level of the configured SFTP Account, leave the Folder field empty.
Resulting exported Workbreakdown content on the server. It is a new item under the Path eftepe.
Upload the published content on a specific folder of your SFTP Server
To upload the published content on a specific folder of your SFTP Server, enter the path of the Folder in the according text field. In our sample we use a relative path for the fictive folder myMerlinProjects within the folder This.
Resulting exported Workbreakdown content on the server. It is placed in the folder myMerlinProjects within the folder This.
This is an existing folder item under the Path eftepe.
If the folder defined by the action is not existing, the publisher will fail and report the issue in the Publishing tab of the action and on the Notifications window.
Verify the correct Path and Folder entries using an sftp client. The Path on the Account defines the first node in the tree, the Folder on the action comes second.
