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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Fine-tuning new project creation


New projects can be created as per default settings when Redmine is installed and used out of the box. Most users don't become instantaneously aware of Redmine's flexibility, and Redmine is flexible in this case as well. New projects can be created with or without certain trackers, public by default, and so on. Here is how to fine-tune your project creation.

Getting ready

A Redmine administrator account is necessary in order to access the Administration menu.

How to do it…

Here is how to fine-tune your project creation. To configure a new project screen's settings, perform the following actions:

  1. Go to Administration | Settings | Projects.

  2. Choose the Project visibility option by checking or unchecking New projects are public by default; when unchecked, your projects will be private (only visible to project members, not visible for unauthenticated users, or users not added to the project).

  3. Check or uncheck modules that you want to be active for newly created projects...