Merlin 2.8.4 Build 10341 - Changelog

What's new in Merlin 2.8.4 Build 10341:

May 10th, 2012

Resolved Issues in Merlin:
· Values for the field "default utilization" were not accepted under Mac OS X 10.7.
· Logging into a project failed if the password was an email address.
· Under some circumstances, a project file could not be saved.
· NovaMind 5 files cound not be imported via drag and drop, a file element was created instead.
· Exporting and importing NovaMind files was improved.
· Under some circumstances, the performance of opening a Merlin file over the internet was very slow.
· When scrolling in the outline, the scroll position could sometimes jump unexpectedly.
· Under some circumstances, XML files exported from Merlin did not show the correct % complete value when imported into MS Project.
· Some mpp files could not be opened by Merlin.
· An arrow button was wrongly shown when printing the Elements view.
· Some Applescript properties such as "expected work" and "actual work" did not work.
· Fixed wrong page breaks in report templates.
· The project template "Software-Development" contained some actual values.
· Fixed some translation issues and typos.
· The German and English help files are updated.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Web:
· Sometimes a wrong project was opened after pasting a direct link into URL field of a web browser.
· The fields "actual work cost", "planned work cost" and "expected work cost" are now also available in the Resource view and Utilization view.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Server:
· It was not possible to change the password of a Merlin Server via the OK button.

What's new in Merlin 2.8.3 Build 10277:

January 7th, 2012

Resolved Issues:
· Under Mac OS 10.7, the very first start of Merlin could fail.

What's new in Merlin 2.8.1:

October 12th, 2011

· NovaMind 5 files can be imported now.
· In Merlin lost licenses can be requested now.

Resolved Issues in Merlin:
· MindManager files exported from Merlin could not be opend by MindManager 9 under Windows.
· Importing of CSV files could mess up when some key fields were empty.
· Completed milestones from OmniPlan 1 were not completed after import in Merlin.
· The import of contacts from LDAP servers did not work correctly.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Web:
· Projects containing an UniCode linebreak in texfields could not be displayed in the the web.
· Printing did not work properly.

What's new in Merlin 2.8:

August 19th, 2011

New Features:
· Compatibility to Mac OS 10.7 “Lion”.
· Merlin does support the full screen mode when executing under Mac OS 10.7 “Lion”.
· The import of MS Project files is further improved. Supported are now all versions starting with MS Project 2002 until MS Project 2010.
· Add a new Risk Report.

· Resolved Issues in Merlin
· Switching to the resource view could be very slow.
· Under Mac OS X 10.4.11 issues could occur when saving.
· The expected costs were not calculated correctly under some system locales.
· When selecting the description part in the project template dialog, Merlin crashed.
· The advanced search under Mac OS X 10.4.11 did not work.
· The expected costs did not match costs for completed activities.
· Under some circumstances, Merlin could not save a project when it was created from a template.
· Sometimes the QuickLook preview was not updated when the document was changed.
· Merlin could not connect to some secure LDAP servers.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Web:
· The box in the bottom time ruler row which contains the project status date is now highlighted in Merlin Web and the HTML export.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Server:
· When installed for a local user, Merlin Server used the wrong file permissions and could not run properly.
· Under some circumstances, a character (‘) was added to the project files path.

What's new in Merlin 2.7.9:

April 20th, 2011

· Collaborates now even better with other applications. New workflows are introduced in the latest version 2.7.9 enabling it to connect to the popular personal task management mac software Things (by Cultured Code).
· Further enhancements are also implemented for the collaboration with the market leading project management software for Windows MS Project.
· And last but not least, several improvements under the hood ensure Merlin’s typical high software stability and robustness.

What's new in Merlin 2.7.8:

November 30th, 2010

New Features in Merlin:
· The new ‘manual’ task mode of MS Project 2010 is now supported in the XML import.
· It is now possible to search for Group titles in the extended search.
· Next training offers on our website can now be accessed over the Merlin Help menu.
· If a user owns a license for iPhone Sharing, an iPad can be shared with the same license as well.
· Added the ‘parent activity’ property to activities in the applescript dictionary.

Resolved Issues in Merlin:
· Redrawing the Gantt bar after having changed %-done values could be a bit “nervous”.
· Under some specific circumstances a dependency of an undefined kind could be created.
· Endless loop while reading some MS Entourage vCards.
· Better line wrap for long notes in the information report .
· A problem with users and intersection calendars is fixed.
· Massively used undos/redos in a published project, could crash Merlin or cause a certain situation where saving was not possible anymore.
· Scheduling warning “Budget sum exeeds approved budget” was sometimes displayed even if not applied.
· Sometimes under Mac OS X 10.6. x a number formatter issue did prevent adding currency values.
· In some networks, the port number could not been updated in Bonjour if it was changed by the user. This could lead to connection errors in the iPhone client or in Safari.
· In combined projects, the utilization view did not always refresh.
· Updated German, French and English help files.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Server:
· In some specific cases, Merlin Server could not save combined projects.
· Fixed startup crash under Mac OS 10.4.

What's new in Merlin 2.7.7:

July 29th, 2010

Resolved Issues in Merlin:
· In combined projects, the utilization view was not refreshing under some circumstances.
· The resource’s cost accrual setting “at start” did produce the same result as “prorated”.
· Start dates of linked projects were deletable via the project link inspector.
· In Merlin Web Sharing, the default time zone was not set to GMT, which resulted in wrong creation dates of elements.
· Fixed an issue in the licensing system for Merlin iPhone.
· The status attribute was not selectable from within the predicate editor for elements.
· The value for “Given Startmode” was not exported properly in CSV export.
· Some access rights on creating project files did not set correctly.
· The “Merlin Quick Guide” is now in French language as well.
· Some translation issues have been fixed.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Server:
· Merlin Server brought an error message for port 7090 after some time of work.
· Merlin did hang on saving a master project with aliases on Merlin Server files.
· A crash could appear when all numbers of a port of a custom server were deleted.

What's new in Merlin 2.7.6:

February 20th, 2010

New features in Merlin:
· When exporting in CSV, you can now define in which time unit the duration fields will be exported. Available options are: Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Calendarweeks, Months and Years. They can be defined in the export dialogue. The same behavior is possible for the import.

Resolved Issues in Merlin:
· Sometimes the Gantt-Chart did flicker during an animation of the bar.
· Under some circumstances the text in the date picker was wrapped. Also the small calendar image was flipped.
· If the user had defined a custom date format, entering times with leading zeros was difficult.
· Projects that are linked into other projects were not synced to iCal even if the combined project was synced to iCal.
· Merlin won’t accept a numeric value for a budget.
· When importing MS Project 2003 files, there were issues with “eDuration” values.
· Sometimes MS Project 2007 creates a special date format in XML exports. Merlin could not read these values.
· Under some circumstances, changes made in iCal were not accepted in Merlin, even though the “accept changes in iCal” switch was set.
· Changing the starting time of milestone was sometimes quite difficult.
· When a group was copied, the group disappeared.
· Passwords containing spaces or other special characters were not accepted during login.
· The column widths in Merlin did not match in PDF & Print.
· Under some circumstances a license file could not be interpreted correctly.
· Under some circumstances Merlin could not save after resource leveling.
· Changing the constraints from a milestone created a milestone with a duration.
· In a very specific case, Merlin could not save on Merlin Server or a mounted file server.
· A few translation issues are fixed.
· The German and English help files are updated.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Web:
· Under some circumstances in IE7 and Firefox the print window could be empty.
· Sometimes a project could not be published if an Apple Airport was used.

What's new in Merlin 2.7.4:

October 27th, 2009

· Support for Mac OS X 10.6.2.

What's new in Merlin 2.7 Beta 1:

April 8th, 2009

· This version is required for the publishing of projects with Merlin iPhone.

What's new in Merlin 2.6.3:

December 2nd, 2008

· Added a new tab to the license preference pane showing the licensed features and their quantities.
· Removed the fields for earliest and latest end from the milestone inspector.
· Web and project sharing: Improved the port mapping behavior for AVM routers.
· An all new "Merlin Quick Guide" replaces the old "Merlin Tutorial".
· The "Send To"-Menu now supports shell scripts.
· When resetting the resource leveling in a project containing activities with actual values, a dialog comes up and lets the user decide if leveling delays of already started activities should be reset.
· Preliminary support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
· This version also includes regularly maintenance and some fixes.

What's new in Merlin 2.6.2:

September 30th, 2008

· The File menu now contains a "Send to" sub-menu which list all AppleScripts which are present in the SendToMenu folder in the usual Application Support directories.
· Hide end, work, duration and utilization fields in the inspector for milestone.
· Cost distribution report now does not show entries for non-working periods.
· If you print from within Merlin the print job name is now set to the document title.
· Billings export now supports version 3.
· Moved Billings export from the publish dialog to the "Send to" menu.
· Objects selected within Merlin are now marked as being selected in the XML export.
· It is now always possible to obtain the local IP address in the web and project sharing dialogs by holding the shift key while klicking or dragging the proxy icon.
· Improved behavior of combining projects with mixed calculation directions.
· Fixed unwanted vertical scrolling of activities view that sometimes occured when a row was clicked.
· The Budget Cost Balance report does now work even if the project has no activities.
· Content of option sheet for report paramters did not scale correctly.
· Adding resources from the web interface or the UI sometimes crashed Merlin.
· The "Page Break at Columns" for the "NetPlan" print settings was not preserved when saving.
· The first level of linked projects is now visible to remote clients even if the linked projects were not loaded.
· For some bundle file formats Merlin did not recognize when element files had been edited externally.
· The percent completion popup in the activity inspector was not disabled when absoulte actual values were used.
· Fixed wrong dot behind filenames in export sheet.
· Fixed problem with entering percent values on French system.
· Fixed a problem with the HTML help that occured on case-sensitive HFS+ volumes.
· Under some circumstances resoure leveling did not terminate.
· Changing the time components by pressing a key in the date picker could lead to unexpected results.
· In dynamic planning mode, the displayed content of a date picker could be damaged.
· Web module: Assignment drop down menu was shifted.
· Web module: Reactivated autocompletion for the combo box.
· Web module: Fixed crash that could occur when exporting to HTML.
· Web module: The percent table column no longer displays NaN%.
· Web module: Under some circumstances the start date of the HTML and web exports was off by one day.
· Web module: Fixed a bug which slowed down the redrawing of the outline view.

What's new in Merlin 2.6.1:

July 29th, 2008

· This version is a regularly maintenance and contains only some fixes.

What's new in Merlin 2.6:

July 8th, 2008

· The new web module is included in this version of Merlin. To publish your saved Merlin project file over the web, open the publish dialog, switch to the Web Sharing tab and click the start button. Click on the displayed proxy icon to launch your favorite browser or drag the icon onto Mail or iChat to announce your shared project. The following web browsers are supported: Safari 3, Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7.0
· The publish dialog owns now an icon for the Project Sharing, which represents the external address of the service. This can be dragged - for an easier communication onto an E-Mail, the iChat window or the Desktop. If the router supports the UPnP or NAT-PMP protocol, it will open the needed port automatically.
· The active set of columns can now be saved as a named column set in the View Options dialogue. A few demo sets are included.
· Style definitions can now be saved as a named style set in the View Options dialogue. A few demo sets are included.
· Project Stamp in the report can now optionally be deactivated.
· In the utilization view the colored boxes can now display two more values: "Actual working hours" and "Remaining working hours".
· In the Milestone Trend Report a new option to show or hide the "Milestone Labels" is available.
· The Milestone Trend Report shows the chart now over the whole width of the window and the paper print.
· QuickLook of Merlin files contains also the resources and the utilization. For the HTML export it can be set optionally.
· The import of MS Project 2007 mpp files is improved.
· The English and German help files are improved.
· The dialog for saving workspaces has been redesigned.
· The contents of some reports can be sorted by clicking on the table headers.
· For the Milestone Trend Report a new chart layout is defined.
· You can include the conflict state of activities in searches.
· MS Entourage 2008 is now supported in the Library.
· Implemented a "Project" column in activities and utilization view.
· The copyright notice for the reports has changed.
· Print headers, footers and margins were not retained in the Merlin file when saved.
· Assigned ressource initials in the advanced search were missing.
· User defined fields were empty after copy & paste.
· First time saving did not work after removing many file elements.
· The menu item "Save Selection�" did not work properly.
· In the Milestones Trend Report the expected bars were not visible in some cases.
· After importing CSV files Merlin could not save the project in some cases.
· While copying resources from one into another project, some of them were not pasted.
· Text notices were not imported from MindManager files.
· Using the duration shortcut "m" expands now to months and no more to minutes.
· If a user did not had the right to see financial values, the base cost were visible.
· The command "Choose target file" did not work.
· Merlin could crash under Tiger if the column "Milestones" were displayed.
· When importing a NovaMind file, the planned work was no more set for groups.
· There was an exception when saving a project with a localization different to English, German or French.
· The CSS definition for the e-mail address in the classic report was defect.
· Entering "FF" in the # predecessor column did not create an end-end dependency.
· The AppleScript implementation contained some conversion and time zone errors for durations.
· The resource type was not included in the XML export format.
· Under some circumstances the flag status column was not displayed correctly in utilization view.
· In the column Milestone there was a "0" displayed for group activities.
· Publishing to Billings when projects are combined was enabled but did not work.
· Merlin crashed rarely if you reverted the changes done to a combined file.
· In the new project assistent, date/time fields were shown in different formats.
· Some issues with the time calculation were fixed.
· Under some circumstances project files could not be saved.
· Copying activities without a given work value resulted in a work of 1 day after pasting.
· Under some circumstances the Information Report was empty.
· Some custom paper sizes were not retained in the Merlin print dialogue.
· Some time units did not work in the French localization.
· Sometimes the Quick Look preview showed an empty page.
· Activities with a slack of 0 could not be found in the advanced search.
· The tab for user defined fields was missing in the inspector for linked projects.
· When synchronizing the assignments of a specific resource, notes did not appear in iCal.
· Some .OO3 files could not be imported.
· The import editor did not work properly.
· Under some circumstances, resource leveling did not close gaps between consecutive activities.
· Opening of combined projects is improved.
· Searching was not possible when the visible time range was limited.
· It was not always possible to undo changes in user defined fields.
· Special characters in the names of user defined fields did not always work correctly.
· Planned values were incorrect when viewing a master file that was generated using the "Separate Selection" option.
· Under some circumstances resources could not be deleted.
· In some cases Merlin crashed when projects with passwords were combined.
· Under some circumstances circular dependencies could be created.
· The settings for resource leveling were not saved in any case.
· The menu item for inserting the current date and time in the text area was grayed out.
· In some cases it was not possible to open Merlin files under Mac OS X 10.4.11.
· The window layout was not saved in the workspaces.
· Under some circumstances, Merlin crashed when showing the EULA dialog.
· The quicklook page and the exported web page were not localized to the system language.
· Red (critical) Gantt dependency lines turned black when they were selected.
· Editing was possible for popup column rows that showed no content.
· Durations specified in unit "months" did not respect the "manMonthDays" project setting.
· The column "base cost accrual" was empty for project rows.
· Resetting of actual values was not always saved correctly to project files.
· Freshly created material resource assignments hat a work value of 100% instead of 1kg.
· Under some circumstances, wrong utilizations were used for calculating expected values.
· The roles of resources can now again sorted manually in the project settings.

What's new in Merlin 2.6 Beta 4:

June 6th, 2008

· The fourth beta version of the new Merlin web module is included in this version of Merlin. To publish your saved Merlin project file over the web, open the publish dialog, switch to the Web Sharing tab and click the start button. Click on the displayed proxy icon to launch your favorite browser or drag the icon onto Mail or iChat to announce your shared project. The following web browsers are supported: Safari 3, Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0
· By default the port forwarding (UPnP) is now activated.
· The usability of the proxy icons in the publishing dialog is highly improved.
· In utilization view the colored boxes can now display two more values: "Actual working hours" and "Remaining working hours".
· In the Web Module, the utilisation view can now also show actual and remaining working units.
· In the Milestone Trend Report a new option to show or hide the "Milestone Labels" is available.
· The Milestone Trend Report shows the chart now over the whole width of the window and paper.
· A new beta license valid until July 1, 2008 is contained.

What's new in Merlin 2.6 Beta:

May 8th, 2008

· The first beta version of the new Merlin web module is included in this version of Merlin. To publish your Merlin project file over the web, open the publish sheet, switch to the Web Sharing tab and click the start button. Click on the displayed URL to launch your favourite browser. The following browsers are supported: Safari 3, Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0
· The active set of columns can now be saved as a named column set in the View Options dialogue. A few demo sets are included.
· Style definitions can now be saved as a named style set in the View Options dialogue. A few demo sets are included.
· The dialog for saving workspaces has been redesigned.
· The contents of some reports can be sorted by clicking on the table headers.
· For the Milestone Trend Report a new chart layout is defined.
· You can include the conflict state of activities in searches.
· The import of MS Project 2007 mpp files is improved.
· MS Entourage 2008 is now supported in the Library.
· Implemented a "Project" column in activities and utilization view.
· The copyright notice for the reports is changed.
· Some minor translation issues and typos in the German, English and French version have been fixed.
· The English and German Help files are improved.