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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

The Workflow page


Issue tracking is not only about managing the list of issues, but also about implementing the issue life cycle, which is also known as the workflow. In Redmine, the issue workflow can be configured on the Workflow page of the Administration menu, which is shown in the following screenshot:

So let's review each tab of this page.

The Status transitions tab

The main purpose of the workflow is to control which issue status can be set for the issue in certain conditions. Thus, instead of using the Open status after In Progress (for example, if the issue was returned), you may want to use the special Reopened status. For this, you can allow the Open status to be set only after the New one and allow the Reopened status after In Progress. These are the things that can be configured under the Status transitions tab.

Issue status transitions can be configured per role and tracker, which are to be chosen using the Role and Tracker fields correspondingly (see the preceding screenshot)...