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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

Embedding Redmine into a web application


There may be numerous reasons why would you want to display complete Redmine, or part of it as a part of some other website, for example, a corporate intranet portal, such as SharePoint, or some dashboard. In this scenario, you are going to learn how to display Redmine reports on time spent on particular projects in this current year, and hide the headers, leaving only real-time reports.

Getting ready

A Redmine administrator account is necessary. To prepare Redmine for these steps, the first thing to do is administration settings preparation:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Settings | Authentication.

  2. Uncheck the Authentication required checkbox.

    Note

    This will leave your public projects browsable by unauthenticated users.

  3. Navigate to the project settings of the project that you want to access-- Project | Settings | Information.

  4. Tick the Public checkbox.

  5. Click the Save button.

The second thing to do is due to the same origin policy. If your Redmine is hosted on...