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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

Checking out the spent time


The Time tracking module is one of the most deeply integrated project modules in Redmine. Therefore, you can see overall time values in many places in its interface. That's also why we will use this section to review how time entries are used and where they can be found.

Tip

To be able to check time entries, the user must have the View spent time permission. So, if you want to hide time entries from your customers, make sure that the corresponding roles do not have this permission (as well as the Non member and Anonymous roles).

This section will be of interest mainly to managers, but other users who track their time using Redmine should find some interesting information here as well.

Tip

The Invoices plugin

The Invoices plugin by Kirill Bezrukov can be used to generate invoices using hours specified in time entries. Note, however, that you need the commercial PRO version for this. Check out the plugin at: http://redminecrm.com/projects/invoices.

Time spent on issues...