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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 general settings


Everything that is possible to configure at the global level (the opposite is the project level) can be found under the Administration link in the top-left menu. Of course, this link is available only for administrators.

If you click on the Administration link, you will get the list of available administration pages on the sidebar to the right. Most of them are for managing Redmine objects, such as projects and trackers. Such pages won't be reviewed in this chapter for the following three reasons: firstly, some of them are intelligible and need little explanation; secondly, many of them will be reviewed in later chapters; and thirdly, in this chapter, we will only be discussing general, system-wide configuration. Most of the settings that we are going to review are compiled on the Settings page, which is shown in the following screenshot:

As all of these settings can't fit on a single page, Redmine organizes them into tabs.

Note

We will discuss the Authentication, Email...