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Mastering Redmine Second Edition

Mastering Redmine Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
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Mastering Redmine Second Edition

Mastering Redmine Second Edition

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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 (14 chapters)
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A. Quick Syntax Reference
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Index

Installing a theme


Redmine themes are based on CSS and often come with images. Sometimes, they can also include JavaScript code. But, generally, Redmine's support for theming is very basic. Nevertheless, this makes installing its themes very easy.

Redmine themes are stored in their own subdirectories under the public/themes directory of Redmine (that is, under /opt/redmine/redmine-3.2.0/public/themes in my case). By default Redmine comes with two directories in public/themes, which are alternate and classic—these are the Alternate and Classic core Redmine themes correspondingly.

So, to install a new theme, you need to create a directory in public/themes for it. The name of the theme can actually be anything that you want it to be (that is, you can use the name that is suggested by the author, or think up your own). The only requirement for the name is that it must be in lowercase.

After you have created a directory for the theme, put all its files into it. Thus, the theme must include at least...

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