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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

Using Redmine through browser plugins


As Redmine is a flexible REST (Representational State Transfer) web application. It is logical that there is going to be various third-party applications and even browser plugins that are aimed at making your daily work more pleasing. As there are multiple browser plugins related to these tasks, this recipe utilizes the one that, at the time of writing this book, has the most ratings on the Google Chrome extensions market.

How to do it…

Google Chrome extensions are usually downloaded and installed through the browser itself from Chrome marketplace. To access it, perform the following:

  1. Access the Redmine Issues Checker extension from Konrad Dzwinel by typing the following URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redmine-issues-checker/cmfcfjopbfmekonldgghddhkphapbpek?hl=en-US.

  2. Click the Add Extension button and click Add Extension again if requested. The extension should install, and a gray Redmine logo with question mark should be installed with...