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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

Activity monitoring through Atom feed


Sometimes, executives do not want or do not have enough time to interact with Redmine on a daily basis, or they just want to be informed about the status of certain Redmine projects or tasks, usually through their mail clients with Atom feed features.

Getting ready

This recipe uses Microsoft Outlook 2013.

How to do it…

The first thing is to determine what you are going to display in the Atom feed. For example, you want to track all open issues where the tracker is a bug on some project. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Issues.

  2. Apply a filter aimed to display only new bug issues.

  3. Find the Atom feed icon at the bottom of the page, right-click it, and choose Copy Link.

  4. Start Outlook 2013.

  5. Navigate to File | Account Settings | RSS Feeds.

  6. Click New.

  7. Paste the copied link and click Add.

  8. Click OK.

  9. Click Close.

Your RSS feed should be visible in Outlook:

Clicking View article opens the browser and takes you to this issue's page in Redmine.

Tip

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