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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

Chapter 9. Personalization

Some readers might want to start this book with this chapter, as it looks like an introduction to using Redmine. But it's not an introductory chapter. Usually people first get used to a new place and only then unpack their boxes. And unpacking your boxes and making Redmine your home application is actually what this chapter is about.

Also, this is the first time we will speak about Redmine from the user's perspective. Thus, this chapter will try to answer the following questions:

  • What can users do to improve their experience with Redmine?

  • How can users get quick access to the needed functionality?

  • How can users be sure that they won't miss important updates?

And these are only some of the questions that we will address.

Like the previous chapter, this one is intended for all users. For project managers and site owners, it also gives an idea of what users might need to get a better experience with Redmine.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

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