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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

Redmine for document management


Redmine ships with a built-in documents module. Some users may not find this module satisfying their needs. In such cases, there are modules that improve this document's module functionality, or completely replace it. One such module is the Document Management System Features module.

Getting ready

If you want to use document-indexing and search features on the server, you need to install some additional software and libraries. To do this, open the console and type the following:

sudo apt-get install libxapian-ruby1.9.1 xapian-omega libxapian-dev xpdf antiword unzip catdoc libwpd-0.9-9 libwps-0.2-2 gzip unrtf catdvi djview djview3 uuid uuid-dev

Note

This recipe is crafted for the Ubuntu server. The Microsoft Windows version probably can be achieved using minigw or cygwin.

How to do it…

Once you have installed pre-requisites, if you are willing to use them to index, proceed with the installation of DMSF plugin by following these steps:

  1. Open the console and navigate...