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Merlin Project: Record Progress - Part 3

You plan your projects with Merlin Project, have completed the planning phase and assigned work to your resources?

This is the third post of the series where we show you how to record ongoing progress on your activities which are already started but not yet completed.

Merlin Project: Record Progress - Part 2

You plan your projects with Merlin Project, have completed the planning phase and assigned work to your resources?

This is the second post of the series where we show you how to:

• Record 100% completion on your activities
• Adjust the information so it reflects the need of more or less work then the original estimation.

Merlin Project: Record Progress

Part 1: Activity Just Started

You plan your projects with Merlin Project, have completed the planning phase and assigned work to your resources?

In this post we will show you how to record progress of the actual work done by you or other project stakeholders.

Merlin Project: Base Costs Report as PDF

We received following question recently:

I’m using the latest version of Merlin Project on a mac and have created a project file where I needed to insert various base costs. I know Merlin Project sums them into planned, expected or actual base costs, but my client requested a detailed Base Costs Report to be printed or read in Preview or Acrobat Reader. The report should list all Base Costs on my project and export their properties. Is this possible?

To meet the requirement described above, you may use an AppleScript solution we developed.

Merlin Project: Create Project Handbook as PDF

We received the following question just recently:

I’m using the latest version of Merlin Project on a mac and have created a project file for a client. He has requested a project handbook to be printed or read in Preview or Acrobat Reader. The project handbook should list activities and attachments in a master–detail interface and export a set of predefined properties I am interested in. I don't mind if I need to use a script but I would like the action to do all works in one go; ie. iterate the items, extract the data and create the PDF. Is this possible?

One way to implement the customer's request would certainly be to use the File > Export > Image menu to export customized project views to PDFs or to call File > Print to print your documents.

However, to meet the requirement described above, an AppleScript solution developed by us comes in handy.