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Enter an activity number in the Predecessor or Successor columns, to create a dependency of the current activity row to that number. If you need to delete several links, select all activities and use the Disconnect option in one of the Link menus. The options contained in the Dependency inspector are responsible for the dependency of linked activities, groups, and milestones. Here you can modify the predecessors and successors, and find them quickly in the project by clicking the arrow.
In the Type drop-down menu, you can select the dependency types. This lets you change the current dependency:.
If you enter a negative value, the dependency and the linked activity will move back along the timeline according to the entered lag value. The Resources toolbar icon opens a pop-up window listing all resources in your project. You can quickly create new resources in Merlin Project by clicking New Resource in the pop-up window. For more information on your resources and for a more detailed edit of the values of your resources, click on Resources View. Merlin Project will switch quickly to that view.
The resources pop-up can be used as a separate window. Move the window down with the mouse pointer. Move a resource from the resources pop-up to an activity, group, or milestone. An assignment is created automatically. The assignments are identifiable by the white triangle. Multiple assignments can be created for an activity and these share the work automatically. For selected activities in a view, the Assign option appears in the resources pop-up. This allows you to add additional resources as assignments to the activity quickly by marking the check box.
If the checkmark is removed, the assigned resource is also removed from the activity. Merlin Project allows you to use contacts from the Contacts app as resources in your project.
Open the Contacts app , select the contacts in question. Use the mouse to drag and drop them on activities, milestones, or groups. These contacts are added as resources to the project and assigned to the activities automatically.
The time scale is the display of time in the Gantt chart. The default time scale contains two tiers , the upper and the lower one. In the time scale Inspector, you can make a range of adjustments to the time units and other options. There you will find a range of options for adjusting the clicked time scale and settings for the Date Range and Non-working Time.
Fix Time Unit fixes the selected Gantt unit and preserves it even when zooming the view. Date Format absolute and relative formats for displaying the units, e.
If you enable the Current Time Unit option the time unit in the Gantt chart which contains the status date , will be shaded blue. This gives you an additional highlight on the Gantt of the project, to quickly visually identify the tasks that are due during this period. If you check the Time Line option, the status date will appear as a thin red line on the project Gantt. The Adjust Scale to Fit Labels option adjusts the width of all active time scale columns automatically.
The content of the time scale grows or shrinks with it. The time units are adjusted automatically as required. The entire project is zoomed into until it fits into the visible area. The time scale grows automatically with it. The Fit Selection option adapts the time scale to the activities selected in the project. The selection is zoomed into until it fits into the visible area.
The time scale grows or shrinks automatically with it. The Complete Work as of sets all activities contained in the project to the status Completed up to the date clicked in the time scale. The Date range option contains settings to restrict the visible date range in the project. This is especially handy with large projects. Time phases in the past can be hidden. The focus is placed on the visible date range. Click the time scale.
The Inspector will appear. This contains the Date Range options. Enter the desired start and end date for how you want the date range displayed. To do this, click the calendar icon and the desired date. A blue bar above the Gantt chart 1 indicates the activated date range.
Another option appears in the Inspector that lets you control the display of hidden rows in the outline. Never shows all rows, including those rows with link lines that are in the date range, but the corresponding activity bars are not visible in the date range.
With main bar outside of range refers to all rows containing an activity bar, but which are not in the date range. With main and reference bars outside of range means all rows containing an activity bar and a reference bar , but which are not in the date range. The Labels drop-down menu contains settings for controlling the display of labels in the activated date range. Non-working time is grayed out in Merlin Project.
For example, the weekends in the project calendar are darkened by default. In the Inspector you will find three options for adjusting the non-working time. The Based on option lets you display the calendar based on its non-working time in the project. The Darken option has three configurations to control the display of non-working time in the project:. The Never option stops darkening the display of non-working time in the project.
The Uniformly option is set by default. The non-working times for the regular week in the project are displayed. Activate the Individually per row option so that you can see the non-working times of resources and their vacation periods in the project in the respective row. Using the slider , set whether you want the regular non-working times to be displayed or hidden. With Merlin Project you can use Comments to improve collaboration with your team members on your projects. You may insert comments on every visible row item of any view if finding needed.
Creation date shown as relative time point today, yesterday, etc and contains the date and time of any given comment. If the traits column is visible in the outline, and there is a comment inserted on items of this view, just click the comment icon on any given row for Merlin Project to show all comments in the Annotations inspector for that specific row item.
This view will list all comments inserted on all items. Double click any given row, for Merlin Project to switch focus to the given comment in the Annotations inspector, where you can reply by a new comment. You can also select the Edit menu item from the … menu shown at the bottom of the Annotations inspector. Select Delete from the … menu shown at the bottom of the Annotations inspector. Select Newest Comments first or Oldest Comments first from the … menu shown at the bottom of the Annotations inspector.
The Filter function allows information in the project to be made visible according to different presets. Other information is hidden. Several evaluation options are created by filtering the project contents. Click the funnel icon and the built-in filters will be displayed in the Inspector. Tick the checkbox to the left of an entry in the Inspector to activate the filter.
The relevant project content is then displayed automatically by the activated filter. Click the magnifying glass to the right of an entry and a dialog will open in which you can see and modify the conditions for the active filter.
The drop-down menus contain information and values which allow you to configure the conditions for filtering your project. Manage how the filtered results are displayed using these three options:.
Add new conditions for a filter by clicking the plus icon. Click the minus icon to remove existing conditions from the filter. Create and add custom filters to the list of built-in filters. To do this, click the plus icon in the filter list. The category Custom will be created. This allows you to differentiate custom own and supplied built-in filters from each other.
Give custom filters a unique name for easier identification later on. Click the magnifying glass and create the conditions for the filter. Use the options to adjust the filter in the drop-down menus. You can add further conditions by clicking the plus icon, or remove the existing conditions by clicking the minus icon.
With the All drop-down menu you can filter the conditions to All or also to Any or None of the set values. The graphical display of the filter is controlled with the three View Options for hierarchy and flat list. Share with other local projects the filter is available in all projects on the local Mac. Publish Changes for shared filters, the changes are published for all local projects. Save Changes for shared filters, the changes are only saved in the current project and not published.
Use this option to modify an existing filter. A copy will then be made. Duplication saves you from having to go through the conditions from the original filter and set them manually. All conditions are transferred during duplication and can be modified or added to.
Use this option so you always have a filter available on your Mac for all local projects. If changes are made in a locally shared filter, a white dot appears next to the filter. To do so, click the rotated undo arrow.
A dialog will then appear in which you can undo the changes. Groupings let you group project content by different requirements. This allows information to be sorted as required in the particular view.
Merlin Project comes with a range of pre-defined groupings. Groupings are highlighted graphically and displayed with corresponding information in the current view.
Among other things, this lets you make different levels of progress in the project visible quickly, classify activities rapidly, and evaluate and visualize information easily. Click the Grouping icon and the Inspector will open with a list of built-in groupings. Mark the checkbox to the left of an entry to activate a grouping. The content in the current view will be sorted and displayed automatically based on the grouping.
Create and add your own groupings to the list of built-in groupings. Click the plus icon on the left below the list. The category »Custom« will be created. This is to differentiate between the groupings you create yourself and those that are built-in. Use the »Group« drop-down menu to group. Depending on the active view, you can choose between the following grouping options in the drop-down menu:. Set options according to which they are to be grouped.
Use the drop-down menu to do this. Click the plus icon to add further condition rows or remove options by clicking the minus icon. The hierarchical display of the grouping can also be changed using the view options at the bottom. If you select a grouping in the list, you can choose from the following options under the gear menu:. This option can be handy to use an existing grouping as a template for a further grouping. A copy of the grouping is created.
Select a grouping and click the gear icon followed by Duplicate. Following that, click the magnifying glass icon to modify and expand the grouping options. The Share with other local projects option lets you share individual groupings with all other projects stored locally on your Mac.
The shared groupings are arranged in the list under the category Shared. If you want to publish changes in a shared grouping to local projects, click the gear icon and then the Publish Changes option. If you no longer want a grouping to be shared locally, click the desired grouping and then click the gear icon. In the list, click Share with other local projects. A marked checkbox in front of the option indicates that the grouping is already being shared.
If you sort manually in different views and activate a grouping, this produces a manual ranking. This option is indicated by a star icon in the column. Click the column followed by Reset Manual Ranking to deactivate the option. Styles let you change how elements bars, groups, milestones, columns, timescales, etc. You can do this using the style options for view elements, such as to change the format of colors , borders , shadows , or fonts.
Contents let you store a range of project information in the view, for example in the labels to the left and right of the bars and on the bars themselves or in the Cards of the Net Plan or Kanban view. The Style and Content Inspector gives you control over styles and contents in a couple of mouse clicks. You can access the Style and Content Inspector quickly by right-clicking an element in the active view and going to the associated context menu.
There is also a new way to access the Style and Content Inspector by clicking the paintbrush icon. Click an element to access the style or content options. In the above drop-down menu, you can see the selection you made and the selected element will be highlighted in blue.
In the following, the Bars 1 , the entire Row bar row type 2 and the Reference Bars 3 are activated. Activate the left label by clicking Title and changing the content of the left label using the option in the drop-down menu with the same name. From the Content drop-down menu, select the Expected Start instead of the default Title selection. This will display the expected start of the activity as a date in the left-hand label. The General tab controls the styles for the display of many general elements in the active view.
If no selection is active in the view and you click the magnifying glass icon , the Style Inspector will open with the General tab. The general settings for Style and Content apply in principle to all style options across the project. The elements for the particular view, which you can configure to suit using the options available in the Inspector, can be found in the drop-down menu. The By Rules tab lets you control style and content options automatically depending on specific conditions.
For example: You want all activities to which a specific resource has been assigned to appear in a specific color or alternate font automatically. The For Selection tab controls the styles and contents for the selection. This lets you adjust elements individually. In a view, select an element and click the paintbrush icon. The Style Inspector will open with the Selection tab.
The General tab will open in the Inspector with the style option for Non-working Time. Click the Background Color color well to change the display color of the Non-working Time in the Gantt chart.
The macOS Colors window will then appear. This includes a range of options for setting colors and the opacity. Changing the background color. Following that, Non-working Time will be displayed in the selected color in the Work Breakdown. The For Selection tab will open in the Inspector.
There you will find options to modify the styles for the selected bars. Click Background Color. In the Color window, choose the desired color. This will be adopted immediately for the selected bars.
Repeat the process for the Fill Level Color. If required, make further changes to options in the Inspector to modify the style of the selected bars. Click the cross icon if you want to undo the value of an option. In doing so, the value of the parent level or condition for the option will be used instead.
When making a multiple selection, if the bars have different values then Multiple Values will appear in the Info field. Click the field and adjust the color so that all selected bars are assigned the new color. This overwrites the old values. Otherwise, click the cross icon to revert from multiple values to the default values. Select the General tab so that the change applies to all content in the view. Click the Content drop-down menu and select the desired content for the active label.
The Content drop-down menu contains all the information that can be used in labels. All elements in the Outline include various options to change styles. These are summarized graphically in the following image. Outline columns include various options to change column styles. Gantt chart bars include various options to change the bar styles. Net Plan boxes and histograms include various options to change the bar styles.
Merlin Project offers you a built-in Find function to search for content within projects. If you enter a term in the search box , all hits will be highlighted automatically in the view, making them easy to spot. You will find the magnifying glass icon on the left in the search box. Click it and a menu will appear with the options shown. Click Insert Pattern and a further menu will open.
There you will find a selection of pre-defined patterns. These patterns make it easier to search. For example, if you select the option Word , individual characters of a word are marked automatically as hits. If you enter a letter before the word , e. The right-hand corner of the search box displays the number of search hits and includes an x to delete the current search.
To the right of the search box are buttons for navigating the search results. If there is more than one search hit , use the arrows to the left and right. Click the Done button to exit the search and hide the search box again. If you tick the checkbox next to the option Replace , another box appears. Now you can find and replace terms in the project.
The Replace function is very easy to use. Enter the word s to replace in the upper search box. In the lower box, enter the word you want to replace the hits with. Jump to Selection lets you jump to a previously made selection, such as a selected activity or several items of selected content in the project. The Jump to box will appear in the active view. Enter the desired row number into the box. Merlin Project provides a number of settings for the open project.
Here you will also find settings for the currency sign used in the project and the visibility of the project. The direction sets whether the project is forward planned or backward planned. The Forward option is active by default and lets you begin a project from the start date. The Backward option allows you to work backwards in the project starting from an end date. The First day of the week option specifies the day on which the week begins.
This varies from country to country. By default, in Europe a week starts on Monday. The Default Value is used for newly created activities. Each new activity is assigned the Default Value for Work automatically. Delete the? As with work , a Default Value for Duration can optionally be set. This means that new activities are assigned the Default Value automatically for the duration.
The calculation unit determines the unit for calculated fields. Per default it is set to Dynamically. This means that the units are calculated dynamically according to the Work project settings: 8 work hours become 1 work day , 40 work hours become 1 work week , 20 work days become 1 work month. Units are available in the drop-down menu. Once you set a unit, it is used for calculations throughout the project.
The current progress in the project is compared against this date. The status date updates automatically by default and shows the macOS date and time.
If a status date is set, the progress of the project can be viewed relative to this specific date. This can be handy if you need to create a status report retrospectively, for example at the end of the month. If you have set the status date and want it to update automatically by default, click the icon next to the date and then the Auto button. When activated, Dynamic Planning shifts the content of the project based on the Status Date.
If you select the first option, dynamic planning is applied to both the expected and planned values in the project. The granularity determines how detailed dynamic planning should be in relation to the status date.
The time units are available in the drop-down menu. For example, if week is selected as granularity , a different date appears calculated based on the status date and granularity. It serves as the basis for dynamic planning. The setting for granularity is also displayed with the From status date when changing completion option.
To deactivate the status date, click the calendar icon and the Today button. If you want the status date to move automatically, click Auto. This is where you set the Initials Style for project resources. The Initials are under the Style options. The Format must then be set to Initials. The Share their Work option is important when there are multiple simultaneous assignments. For example, if two resources are moved to one activity, both share the work equally.
In the Calendars section you can manage the various calendars in your project. Here you can edit, create new, rename, delete calendars and define which calendar should be the default Project Calendar. Standard - 5 days by 8 hours spread out over the day time 8ampm and 1pm-5pm. Night Shift - 5 days by 8 hours, but spread out over the night hours 11pm-3am and 4am-8am. To remove existing calendars, select the calendar you want to delete and click the - icon. In the Regular Week section you can manage the regular work intervals per week day.
Just select the Calendar you want to manage, select the various week days and edit its regular Work intervals as desired. By clicking Exceptions 1 you can set single days or time phases as exceptions for free time and extra working time in the active calendar. New exceptions are created by clicking the plus 2 icon. Each exception can be customized with the following information:. These times are only active as additional working times outside regular working time when times are added in the Work intervals bar 3.
Use Export option, to export a configured calendar from a project to be able to import in another Merlin Project document. You can configure the Regular Week and Exceptions of the working times for your Resources in the same way as for the project Calendars. Just select a Resource row in a Resources or Assignments view, and click the Calendar tab in the Inspector. Use the Base Calendar drop-down menu to select another project calendar for the active resource if needed.
If you make changes to the resource calendar, these settings will take priority over the selected Base Calendar. You can Reset to Base Values and remove changes from the resource calendar for the individual days.
Work breakdown structure WBS elements are typically numbered sequentially in a way revealing their hierarchical structure and providing consistent identification. For example, 1. Sequence - Select how this level should be coded. Available options: Digits Default setting , Lowercase letters, Uppercase letters, Lowercase roman numerals, Uppercase roman numerals, Numbers - spelled out.
To comply with project management standards, the WBS Code project settings offer you following Sequence options:. Generate code for new tasks - Disable this option if you want to leave the WBS Code empty when new activities get inserted.
Verify uniqueness of new codes - Disable this option if you want to be able to edit WBS Codes and the app should not check for duplicates. Here you can edit entries of Value Lists used in attachments or for cost. Change the name of existing entries by double-clicking the title of the entry. Some value lists allow you to set an attention symbol. Simply select the desired symbols as needed. These values have a direct influence on the utilization calculation in the project. The Respect pool assignments option also lets you include resources assigned from resource pools in the utilization calculation based on the thresholds.
You have a multitude of options at your disposal to perform resource leveling in the project:. Click the Level Now gear icon and select one of the leveling options:. The Publish Assignments option lets you make the resource pool assignments visible. The Application language option lets you choose which language you want to use for the application. By default, the system language is used. If you want to use a different language in Merlin Project to the language used in macOS, change it by selecting another language from the drop-down menu.
The Upon external changes to files option contains three options which let you choose how changes made to File type attachments are handled. By default, the option is set to Ask what to do. You will be prompted whether you want to save the file as a new duplicate version with the changed content or if the new content should be adopted in the old file version.
The Automatically download and install updates option searches for updates automatically. If a new program version is found, it is downloaded and installed automatically. The Just notify if there are updates option notifies you of updates. You then download and install the update manually.
Select Adjust automatically for the inspector to change into the Dark or Light mode as macOS Mojave or later offers it. Select Always dark to keep your inspector in its dark mode even if your macOS is currently in light mode. By default, the Inspector is integrated into the main window and part of it. Select the Separate window option to release the Inspector from the main window and use it in a separate window.
By default, the option is set to End editing. You can set it to Edit next row , if you are mostly using the keyboard when editing your content instead of the mouse or trackpad.
Enable this option to send diagnostics and usage data to ProjectWizards. By default, the option is disabled. By default, this option is disabled. The »Templates« preference pane lets you select the language of the offered build-in templates and allows you to manage your own project files as templates:. If you want to use templates in a different language or enable templates from more languages, select the desired language s from the drop-down menu Languages for default templates.
You can make multiple selections. If you want to remove the build-in templates altogether, use the menu to deactivate the Application language.
With Merlin Project you may in addition use folders containing existing project files as templates. Select the item in the sidebar to see the contained project files and start new projects using their content. The »Folders« tab lets you select the language of the offered build-in library items and allows you to manage your own library content:. If you want to use library content in a different language or enable more languages, select the desired language s from the drop-down menu Languages for default content.
The Writeable folder option lets you change the default folder where all Library content will be stored when drag and items in the Merlin Project Library. You can configure additional folders with content for the Library in the Read-only folders list.
The »Address books« tab lets you select and configure the address books the Library should use when listing Contacts. If having currently opened the Library dialogue and made any changes in the preferences pane, click Reload to update all content listed in the Library dialogue.
This allows Merlin Project to sync documents from folders of Box Sync and resolve automatically conflicts which occur when working on the same documents with more than one users or devices. You may confirm or choose to insert the folder manually later on. The first time you save a document, you name it and choose where to save it—on your desktop or in a folder, for example.
Choose this option to create a duplicate with the same document history and be able to undo all your previous actions starting by document creation. Choose this option to remove document history in the duplicate and work in this document by a new identity. This would allow you to combine for example the old file with the new duplicate within master projects. This uses the standard print dialog integrated into macOS. The Page Setup settings can be found there. The macOS print window has two views: One with fewer details and one with more details.
This basic view only offers a few options. Click the Show Details button. This opens the advanced print view. Here you will find the options described in the following.
The Content drop-down menu offers options for configuring the content to be printed. Repeat header columns on every page useful for printing over several pages. Under Scaling you set the scaling of the project to the configured paper format.
If you want to output a large project on A4 paper, it may come out looking very small. The number of pages, based on the width or height of the selected paper format, determines the size of the output. Click the paper orientation option to select whether you want your project content printed in portrait or landscape format.
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