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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

Formatting text in Redmine


Initially in Redmine, rich text formatting was implemented mainly for the integrated Wiki system that is provided by the Wiki module, which was described in the previous chapter. That's why it is still often called Wiki formatting (and that's the name I will use to refer to it from now on). Right now, however, the Wiki syntax is used not only for the Wiki pages but also for issue descriptions, comments, news, project descriptions, and so on.

The underlying markup language used for Wiki formatting can be selected on the General tab of the Settings page, which can be found in the Administration menu. Check out the following screenshot:

Thus, if the Text formatting setting is set to none, the content that you put into a Wiki-syntax-enabled text area will be shown as is, that is, any formatting will be ignored. This will also apply to the Wiki system, what means that Wiki pages will lose their formatting. However, the Wiki syntax for Redmine's internal linking (such...