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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

Implementing and using reoccurring tasks


Reoccurring tasks is a plugin developed for Redmine, which creates a new issue in Redmine for each recurrence, linking the duplicated issue as a related issue. For example, your company may be having some kind of contract with a customer, which requires some kind of periodic activities, or any other kind of the same tasks, which require to be executed on some reoccurring schedule pattern. Redmine with reoccurring tasks plugin will make sure that you or your company fulfills its duties, as defined by a schedule.

Getting ready

Server and Redmine administrator access is required.

How to do it…

At first, we are doing a standard Redmine plugin installation using the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Redmine root from the console.

  2. Get the plugin code:

    git clone https://github.com/nutso/redmine-plugin-recurring-tasks.git plugins/recurring_tasks
    
  3. Perform a database update:

    bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
    
  4. Restart Redmine, as follows:

    rm tmp...