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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

KPIs inside Redmine


With KPIs, the situation is not so good, there are not many options available, mainly due to the fact that KPIs are usually different and calculated in a different way for each company.

One method of displaying KPIs directly within Redmine's project would be by combining two plugins. The first plugin lets you display custom SQL on the wiki page, and the second plugin lets you apply permissions on this particular page so that no users with a particular role can access this page.

Tip

This recipe was tested on the 2.5 version of Redmine. At the time of writing this book, plugins were not upgraded to support 3.x version. Readers are advised to monitor this book's website www.redminecookbook.com because plugin updates used in this book will be announced there.

Getting ready

Ensure server access or make your Redmine server administrator to do this.

Prepare the SQL querying tool, which you will use to create and test the KPI's SQL query. It will be something such as phpMyAdmin or...