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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

Configuring issue tracking


Let's now see what configuration options are available in Redmine for issue tracking.

The Issue tracking module

Everything you have read in this chapter so far can actually be disabled for a project with just one click. However, I'm not sure who might need to do this and why... Anyway, just in case you got Redmine with issue tracking disabled by someone else or whatever, let's discuss how Issue tracking can be enabled (or disabled) for a project.

Open the project settings by selecting the Settings tab in the Projects menu. Then select the Modules tab of the Settings page. Make sure that the Issue tracking module is checked, as shown in this screenshot:

If this checkbox is unchecked, issue tracking won't be available for the project.

Note

The Issue tracking module can also be enabled for all projects by default. This can be done under the Projects tab of the Settings page of the Administration menu.

The Issue tracking tab

Remember that we skipped several tabs of the Settings...