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...