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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

Customizing with Textile


Once, I was asked to create a custom plugin for Redmine to improve the look and feel of its start page (which can be opened by clicking on the Home link) by adding buttons, links, sections, and other similar stuff. My answer was, You don't need a plugin to do that.

Textile is very simplified HTML. Therefore, it can't be used to create full-featured HTML pages, but for some things, it may appear to be sufficient. However, to achieve the necessary results, you will most likely need to use the most advanced features of Textile. Also, like for HTML, you can't learn how to create a good look and feel with Textile—you may only understand the concept. You will need to inject your own creativity to get what you need. Therefore, in this section, we will review some interesting customization examples that should help you understand the technique.

Tip

Wiki pages as tabs in the project menu

The Wiki Extensions plugin, which was created by Haruyuki Iida, allows you to add Wiki pages...