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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 track of your clients


Redmine offers multiple ways to manage clients. Either create a special role called client and expand it, or use some plugins, like the one described in this recipe. Considering this, if you are following Redmine's main use-case scenario of managing multiple projects simultaneously, it is good practice to install clients plugin, and be able to quickly find client's contact details.

How to do it…

To start using this plugin, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to your Redmine installation root.

  2. Grab the latest version from GitHub, by typing the following:

    git clone https://github.com/splbio/customer_plugin.git plugins/customer_plugin
    

    Note

    Do not confuse this fork of the plugin with the original Eric Davis-es repository which is unmaintained, on GitHub https://github.com/edavis10/redmine-customer-plugin/tree/master because the original version is incompatible with Redmine 3.0 and later.

  3. Install missing gems:

    bundle install
    
  4. Migrate the database:

    rake redmine:plugins:migrate...