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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

Relating between issue and time


Having estimated time and spent time properly logged per issue in Redmine may be very important in your organization. Whether you are a software development company paying developers on an hourly basis, or a service desk company that needs to measure various Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), this recipe will teach you how to log and edit time per issue manually and from the source control management systems.

How to do it…

To log time manually on a per-issue basis, perform the following tasks:

  1. Navigate to the particular issue by any of these entry points: My page, search, issue list, direct URL, Gantt, and so on.

  2. Click the Log time icon.

  3. The Spent time entry form will appear:

  4. Enter how much time you spent on particular date, an optional comment, and a mandatory Activity.

  5. Click Create or Create and continue.

  6. Create and continue will keep opening the Spent time form until you click Create, which will lead you to issue with the Spent time field populated with entered...