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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

Creating and using User groups


The User groups feature can reflect a logical or some different kind of physical organization of your company. If this is large, you may want to spend some time thinking about how to organize groups. Your company may have multiple office locations, so as an example scenario, you may have a London office and be able to assign issues to the group called London office. Afterwards, everyone in the London office will get the notification e-mail and a worker named John Doe can take the task and immediately start to work on it.

Getting ready

Before creating User groups, make sure the following is done:

  • Make sure that you have administrator permissions in Redmine

  • First, create users that you are going to assign to the groups

How to do it…

To create User groups, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Administration menu.

  2. Then click Groups. Groups display screen will appear with the New group button located at the top right.

  3. Click this and enter the name for the group London...