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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

Custom fields


I believe that support for custom fields is essential for any issue tracker, and luckily Redmine implements this feature very well. Thus, in Redmine, custom fields can be defined for issues, projects, versions, users, groups, time entries, and so on (even for some objects that are provided by third-party plugins). Custom fields enrich these objects by allowing you to add properties that are missing. Additionally, they can be used, for example, in search filters. In other words, to a great extent, custom fields let you change the way Redmine looks and behaves. So, this makes them a tool for advanced customization (and that's why they are reviewed in this chapter).

Tip

Be sure to plan the use of custom fields. Thus, avoid adding custom fields that are going to be rarely used, as too many custom fields can confuse your users.

Custom fields can be managed on the Custom fields page, which can be found in the Administration menu. Check out the following screenshot:

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