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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

Updating an issue


Finally, let's check out how to update issues. To open the issue update form, you need to click on the Edit link, which is located in the top-right corner of the issue page (in the contextual menu). This will open the following form below the last history entry:

Most of the fields of this form should already be known to you. The missing text area for the Description field is hidden to save space and can be revealed by clicking on the Edit link (with the pen icon).

A new element in this form is the Notes box. As you can see, the text area inside this box supports Wiki formatting (like the one for the Description field). This is the text area where you can enter your comments on the issue. If the Private notes checkbox is checked, such comments will be visible only to those project members who have the View private notes permission.

When added, issue comments are rendered as history entries, as shown in the following screenshot:

Private comments have a red stripe to the left...