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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

The personal page


Perhaps you have already visited My page—the page that is opened after successful authentication if Redmine fails to redirect you to the previous Redmine page (for example, if you first came right to the login page). You can open this page by clicking on the My page link in the top-left menu. It looks like this:

The idea of this page is to gather all of the information that is interesting to the user in one place so that he/she can quickly move to the page of interest. However, as you already know, there is a lot of information that the user can be interested in. Therefore, this page comes with the Personalize this page link. This link can be used to switch it into edit mode, which is shown in the following screenshot:

In this mode, each block of the personal page can be dragged or removed. To drag a block, you need to press the mouse button when the cursor is above its header, and move the mouse arrow while holding the button pressed (thus, in the preceding screenshot, I...