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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

Customizing the layout of the project entry page


If built-in customizations don't fit your needs and you need to edit Redmine's views manually for some reason, this recipe will show you how to make New project private in Redmine, and how to remove the Homepage field on the New project creation form.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have access to your working Redmine installation.

How to do it…

To accomplish the goal of making the project private by default by having the checkbox at the project creation form unchecked by default in Redmine, you need to navigate to Administration | Settings | Projects. Untick the New projects are public by default checkbox, and click Save.

To hide the Homepage textbox and label, use your favorite code editor with Ruby highlight, navigate with the file browser or via the command line to your Redmine installation folder, open redmine/app/views/projects/_form.html.erb, find the line containing <p><%= f.text_field :homepage, :size => 60 %></p&gt...