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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

Customizing with a plugin


The most advanced customization can be accomplished by writing a custom plugin. With a plugin, you can customize anything in Redmine. Of course, to write a full-featured plugin, you need to be familiar with Ruby, Rails, the Redmine API, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, the concept of web development, and so on. But who said that you need a full-featured plugin?

As you already know, the files of a plugin are kept in a separate directory that is named after the plugin and located under the plugins directory of Redmine. So, when Redmine is upgraded, such files remain untouched. On the other side, many users put their customizations into the Redmine core files that are overridden on upgrades. So why not use a special plugin for this instead?

The Redmine plugin API is quite flexible. In particular, it allows you to:

  • Override any core view file without touching the original one

  • Add custom content to some views

  • Load additional CSS style sheets, JavaScript files, and so on

This makes it...