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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 template projects


If you often work on similar projects, such as creating a website, organizing the promotion of..., or building a house for ..., then this feature can help you significantly reduce the time spent on starting a new project.

How to do it…

Probably the best way to have template projects is to create a top-level project for template projects or create Template project in your projects tree. Template projects should be just like a normal project with all common tasks defined and assigned. In the next image, you can see a sample tree where the template is a subproject of another type of project or a subproject of the root project called Template projects:

In order to create a new project from an existing project, perform the following:

  1. In the main Redmine menu, choose Administration.

  2. Choose Projects.

  3. Click Copy.

  4. A New project form will appear with the description prefilled and copy options at the bottom of the form, allowing you to customize which project data are...