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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

Splitting your tasks into subtasks


It is good practice to group tasks per feature or job, which consist of several tasks. Splitting tasks into subtasks makes the project more clean looking and well organized. In addition, having projects clean and organized increases your chances of delivering the project on time and within budget.

How to do it…

Assuming that you have project tasks prepared on paper, in an electronic document, or in your mind, the first thing to do is create a standard Redmine issue with a type of Feature, Task, or any other custom issue type that you customized, which will serve as a parent task:

  1. On the parent task that you just created, click the Add link:

  2. The Issue entry form will open up. Fill it with your issue details. If you are adding more sub-issues in a row, click Create and continue. A new Issue entry form will load with the Parent task field's value preloaded:

  3. When you are done entering subtasks, navigate to your parent issue, and you will be able to see all of this...