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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

Administering projects


Redmine also has another list of projects. This list, however, is available only for administrators. You can check it out on the Projects page of the Administration menu. It looks as shown in this screenshot:

Here, you can see all the projects that I have on my demo Redmine installation. This page has a very simple form that allows you to filter projects by their statuses and by a part of the name. The Clear link can be used to reset values of this form.

Available statuses are: all, active, closed, and archived. If the status filter is set to active (which is the default), the list won't include closed and archived projects. You already know what a closed project is. You will read about archived projects in the Archiving projects subsection. Also note how the subproject, that is, Redmine, is shown.

Additionally, on this page, you can see another New project link, which was mentioned earlier in this chapter. This link opens the new project form that we have discussed as...