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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

Creating a project


Now that we have chosen the default values for some project fields, let's create a project. This can be done in two ways: using the New project link on the project list (click on the Projects top menu item to get there), or using the link with the same name on the Projects page of the Administration menu. The latter is available only for administrators, however. In both cases, you will get the following form:

Not much to explain here, right? But let's speak about the best practices for filling this form. It's perhaps the most important form in Redmine because it is where you actually create the face of your project.

Note

To be able to create projects, a user must have the Create project permission. If you want to allow any registered user to create projects, you need to grant this permission to the Non member built-in role.

The value of the Name field, which is required, should be as short as possible but still descriptive. Usually, you will want it to be identical to the...

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