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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

Creating an issue


In order to be able to create an issue, you need to have a project already. So, create one if you haven't done this yet (use the New project link that can be found under the Projects menu item). You can also jump to the Creating a project section in Chapter 5, Managing Projects, where project creation is described, and then come back here.

If you already have a project, or after you have created it, navigate to the New issue tab in the Projects menu. You will see the following form:

This is the form that Redmine users use to create issues. Fields that are marked with the red asterisk are mandatory.

Note

Issues can be also created via email if you have configured the email retrieval (as described in the Email retrieval subsection of Chapter 3, Configuring Redmine), or through third-party tools if you have enabled the REST API.

Let's discuss each element of this form:

  • In Redmine, the Tracker name is used to describe the type of the issue. Thus, the appropriate element in JIRA...