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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 issue list


Now that you have learned how to create issues and check their details, let's move on to the Issues tab of the Projects menu, where they are listed:

On the sidebar of this page, you can see the same Issues section that you could see on the single issue page. The View all issues link of this section can be used to open the issue list with all view parameters reset to their default values. The form under the Issues title in the main content area and above the list is actually the one that you can use to modify the parameters of the list. Let's discuss this form in detail.

By default, issues are filtered by their status, so only open issues are listed. But you can add more filters using this form. Thus, you can also filter issues by Tracker, Priority, Author, Assignee, Category, Target version, Subject, Start date, Due date, the done ratio, the issue relation, and much more. The following screenshot shows some of the filters that are available:

Each of these filters has a set of...