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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

Editing Redmine's views manually


In its essence, Redmine is a Ruby on Rails web application, and it's open source. This means that you can edit its code, distribute it, or do anything else, as long as it complies with GNU General Public License v2 (GPL). So, for this recipe, we are going to add a company logo to the top left just below the top navigation row that contains Home and other links.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have access to the files and folders of your working Redmine installation.

How to do it…

Adding a company logo can be done in two ways. One is to customize the CSS theme and the other is to edit the base template manually. To edit the base template and add a logo or some other content, which will be visible on all pages, open /app/views/layouts/base.html.erb in your favorite code editor and find a line that looks like this:

  <h1><%= page_header_title %></h1>

Replace it with the following content:

<!--<h1><%= page_header_title %></h1&gt...