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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

Tracking your time


The time entry form, which is used to add time entries to Redmine, can be accessed from several places. For example, users can open this form by clicking on the Log time link, which can be found in the top-right contextual menu of the issue page. This page is shown in the following screenshot:

Similar Log time links can be found on the project overview page (on the sidebar) and on the time report page, which will be reviewed later in this chapter.

Note

To be able to log time, the user must have the Log spent time permission.

The time entry form can also be opened by selecting the Log time item in the drop-down menu that can be invoked by right-clicking on an issue in the issue list. Here is a screenshot of this menu:

But note that the Log time item does not appear in this menu if you selected more than one issue.

Also, this form is partially available within the issue edit form, which can be opened by clicking on the Update link on the issue page. It looks like this:

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