Merlin Project (Version 4)

Important: If you are working under macOS Catalina (10.15), please download the update from here.

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• Publishing to Reminders app did not always work under macOS Catalina (10.15).
• From some MS Project files manual start and finish dates were not imported correctly.

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• Views of Merlin Project 5 documents could look incorrect if selection styles were used.
• Better support of Merlin Project 6 documents.

New Features

• Merlin Project 6 documents can be opened and edited.

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• On resources in parent projects, costs from subprojects were not always included.

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• When importing vCard files, only the first contact contained was imported.
• When importing vCards, phone numbers and e-mail addresses were not included.
• The attachments inspector displayed the time of the creation and modification date in the wrong time zone.
• MS Project documents with a value of zero in the fields "Hours per day", "Hours per week" or "Days per month" caused a crash when importing.
• MS Project import: The task type "Fixed Duration" is now influencing whether work or duration gets set on Merlin activities.
• MS Project Import: Warnings are now generated during import for tasks with contradictions to the actual values of their assignments.
• MPP files could sometimes not be imported if third-party software was installed that could also import this format.
• When opening merlinproject hyperlinks, the target document was not always found.
• Filtering for equality of work values did not function.

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• In some cases, custom templates could not be opened.
• MS Project export: Activities with zero work but non-zero duration appeared as milestones in MS Project.
• MS Project export: Activities with a given duration are now exported as tasks of type "Fixed Duration".
• MS Project import: The task type "Fixed Duration" is now influencing whether work or duration gets set on Merlin activities.
• Creating e-mails did not work under macOS 10.14.
• Using the same FTP publishing account from multiple machines did not work.
• The import of working time calendars could not be configured under macOS 10.14.
• Under macOS 10.11, wrong footers could appear when printing.

New Features

• Merlin Project is now available in Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• Sometimes, user-defined number or duration fields were not cumulated.
• Under some circumstances, reverting a document with sub-projects back to a previous state did not work.
• Some mappings of columns in CSV documents to Merlin Project fields did not produce correct results.

New Features

• Share Merlin Project documents now with other Merlin users on iOS or macOS via your Dropbox account or via iCloud Drive. Forget about the infamous conflict files: Merlin Project synchronizes all changes of all users and automatically integrates them into your document without the need of your help.
• For pure Mac workgroups, the automatic synchronization works as well with documents on SMB, AFP or cloud services like box.com or Google Drive.
• To be able to automatically sync changes from box.com, Merlin Project asks for access to your box.com folder. This permission can be managed in the new tab "Access to Folders" in the application preferences.
• The templates menu can now be populated with documents from any folder. You can add folders in the new tab "Templates" in the application preferences.

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• Improved the import and export of MS Project files.
• Dependency lags are now applied to the calendar of the successor activity instead of the project calendar. In rare cases, this may affect the scheduling in existing documents.

New Features

• The Touch Bar of the new MacBook Pro is now supported.
• Changes to shared views, column sets and filters can now be published directly via the menu item "Publish Changes…"

Fixed issues

• Improved general stability.
• Missing French and Spanish localizations were added.
• A resource which gets activated as a user now gets all view configurations of the currently logged-in user.
• The line heights in the HTML export were sometimes incorrect.
• Under some circumstances, objects could not be copied to the library.
• The format of document URLs was improved to better work in with applications.
• Negative values in user-defined currency fields were not shown in red.
• Under macOS Sierra, some clicks into project views were not registered.

Merlin Project 4

The 4th edition of the most successful project management software for the Mac is all about collaboration.

Merlin Project now makes it even easier to work on a project together. Discover the many new functions here, which put Merlin Project’s focus firmly on teamwork. You are going to be blown away!

More details about this free update