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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

Time reports


Redmine is known to lack reporting functionality, but not in the case of time tracking, as time tracking is generally useless without reporting.

In the previous section, you learned that Redmine provides many links to time reports. Let's list them here:

  • Overall spent time on the project list page, which can be accessed through the Projects item in the top-left menu. This link opens a report that lists all visible time entries for all projects.

  • The Details and Report links on the project's Overview page. The corresponding report lists all the time entries for the project.

  • The number of hours on the issue page. This report lists all the time entries for the issue.

  • The title of a time entry event on an activity page. The report that such a link points to lists all the time entries for the corresponding issue.

So, as you can see, time reports are generally available for three nesting levels: the global level (for all projects and issues), the project level (for all issues), and the issue...