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Redmine Cookbook

By : Pavic
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Pavic

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 (12 chapters)
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Index

Managing multiple projects simultaneously


As you have learned so far, Redmine has features to manage multiple projects in a flexible way. You can have different users or the same users with different roles on each project, every project can use some or all of Redmine's default modules, and each project can use different trackers. Managing multiple projects simultaneously can be exhausting, and without proper tools this can lead to project failure, unsatisfied clients or team members. Luckily, Redmine has a built-in feature called queries to help you battle the Project management triangle. In this recipe, we are going to create a custom query that shows which tasks are due in the current week, grouped on a per-project basis.

How to do it…

There are two types of queries: public and private. Any user can use public queries, and private ones are visible only to the user that created them. To create a query that displays tasks due this week on all projects, follow these steps:

  1. In the main menu,...