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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

Extending user profiles with additional data


In the spirit of flexibility, Redmine lets users customize various objects inside the application. The objects can be: user, group, project, activity, version, document, spent time, issue priority, or document category. This recipe applies to any object.

Note

The custom fields feature is extremely important. It lets users customize Redmine to fit various purposes.

For example, you can change the type of tracker from Bug to Virtual server and extend this tracker with custom fields, such as RAM or Disk size, and keep track of your virtual servers. Then, you can use filtering features to find all the servers using Windows or any other custom fields that you figured out you need in your Redmine implementation.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have administrative permissions on the Redmine system. If you have them, the Administration menu item will be visible at the top left, prior to the Help link.

How to do it…

To create new custom field for User, perform...