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Mastering Redmine

By : Andriy Lesyuk
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Mastering Redmine

By: Andriy Lesyuk

Overview of this book

<p>Redmine is well-known as one of the best open source project management applications. But, it's also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. In addition it incorporates Wiki, repository management, forums, time tracking, and more. This book reveals the power of Redmine and manifests its exceptional flexibility and customizability.<br /><br />Mastering Redmine is a comprehensive guide which covers a wide variety of topics: from configuration to writing simple plugins, from issue reporting to managing issue lifecycles, from writing simple Wiki pages to designing rich web content using the Wiki syntax, from quick installation to&nbsp; deep customization, and more.<br /><br />This book resembles a learning tutorial. It imitates the self-learning process so that you first understand the basics before we dig deeper into the advanced concepts.<br /><br />You will first read about possible setups. Then, you will choose an appropriate setup to install and configure. The book runs through the main features of Redmine and shows how it can be effectively used as project management, issue and time tracking solution. Once you are familiar with all the essential features of Redmine, you will start exploring advanced concepts such as integration with other applications, customizing Redmine, and using various Redmine plugins.<br /><br />This book will help you master Redmine by unleashing it's core functionality .</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Redmine
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Administrating projects


Redmine also has another list of projects, but this one is only for administrators and is available in Administration | Projects section:

Here you see all the projects that I have on my Redmine demo installation. This page has a very simple filter that allows you to filter projects by their status and by a part of the name. The Clear link can be used to clear this filter.

Available statuses for the filter are namely all, active, closed, and archived. If the status filter is set to active (which is default), the list won't include closed and archived projects. We have discussed what the closed project is, and you can read, what the archived project is, in a subtopic.

On this page, you can also see another New project link, which has also been mentioned in this chapter before. This link opens the same new project form that we have discussed.

But new things on this page are the Archive (and the Unarchive), Copy, and Delete links. I guess, there is no need to explain what...