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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

Creating reports on spent time


Redmine comes with a powerful filtering engine for time logs. Accessing time logs has multiple entry points. In addition, reports can be done on many bases. This recipe will elaborate on how to display the following reports, how much time each user spent on the project per month, and how to export a detailed time log.

How to do it…

To display how much time each user has spent working per month on the project, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Overview in the main project navigation bar.

  2. On the right sidebar under Spent time, click Report.

  3. On the Report tab, choose Month under the Details dropdown, and on the Add dropdown, choose User:

  4. Under the Filters section, you can choose the Date range, display only one User, or filter the report on various criteria offered in the Add filter dropdown on the right-hand side. We are going to choose This year under the Date option.

  5. Click Apply, and you will get a report that looks like the following screenshot:

  6. The Details tab offers...