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:
In the main Redmine menu, choose Administration.
Choose Projects.
Click Copy.
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...