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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

Keeping relevant documentation in Redmine


While managing multiple projects, it is good practice to standardize project documentation so that managers and users don't waste time seeking information and reduce the possibility to oversee some relevant project data. For example, if your team is running multiple software projects, you can have a document called specification that is common to every project so that everyone knows exactly where to look for the required information. This way your teammates will save time, and it will boost confidence.

How to do it…

Redmine offers several ways to organize project documentation. To utilize the Documents module, which offers Textile formatting and attached files, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Documents tab of the main project menu.

  2. Click Create New document.

  3. Choose Category from the dropdown, enter Title, Description, and attach files if required. The default upload size of attachments can be changed through Administration | Settings | General...