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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

Tuning the workflows


The combination of Redmine workflows and permissions let you implement various workflow execution scenarios. This recipe will teach you how to fine-tune permissions that are related to workflows, trackers, and who can change the issue state to what.

How to do it…

Fine-tuning user permissions is not just about the Roles and permissions screen. Permissions relate to workflows as well. For example, Redmine let's you set up workflows in such a way that for a particular tracker (such as bug, for example), particular roles, such as Developer, can only change states from-to based upon given permissions. So, let's say that Developers are not allowed to close the issue, they can only work on the issue until it's resolved, and then only Manager can close the issue if tracker is a feature. This should not apply to the tracker type, Bug. To do this, perform the following:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Workflows.

  2. From the Role dropdown, choose Developer.

  3. From the Tracker dropdown, choose...