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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

Activities


In order to be completed, a task may need different types of work to be done. Thus, a software feature can be designed, developed, and tested. Sometimes, information about the time that was spent on such types of work is very important, as it helps determine which work is more time-consuming and therefore allows optimization of the workflow. Also, such information is especially needful if different types of work involve different hourly payment rates. So, that's what the Activity field of the time entry should be used for.

Certainly, activities for time entries should not be defined by end users—their names and usage should be controlled by managers. Therefore, in Redmine, they can be managed only by administrators and only project managers (users who have the Manage project activities permission) can choose which activities apply to the project.

Administrators can manage activities using the Activities (time tracking) table, which can be found on the Enumerations page of the Administration...