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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

Exporting to Microsoft Project


If, for some reason, you need to import a Redmine project into Microsoft Project 2013, this recipe teaches you how to export Redmine issue data and import it to a Microsoft Project. Please keep in mind that Redmine-exported data can be used or imported in other software capable of CSV or Excel import.

Getting ready

Prepare Microsoft Project to open legacy file formats:

  1. Start Microsoft Project and create a new blank project.

  2. Go to File | Options.

  3. Choose Trust Center.

  4. Click the Trust Center Settings button.

  5. Choose the Legacy Formats tab.

  6. Choose Allow loading files with legacy or non-default file formats.

  7. Close dialog boxes by clicking OK.

How to do it…

The first step is to export data from Redmine to a CSV file. To do it, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Issues in the main project menu.

  2. Expand Options:

  3. Choose and order the fields:

  4. Save this as a new saved search for all projects so that you can reuse it later and for other projects if required. Click on the Save button...