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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

The Trackers page


In any issue tracking application, an issue has a type, such as bug, feature, or support (the default types in Redmine). In Redmine, such issue types are called trackers.

Trackers play an essential role in issue tracking, as they define issue properties, conditions for issue status transitions, field availability, and so on. Thus, a feature should not have the status Fixed and a bug should not have the status Planned.

Trackers can be managed—that is, created, edited, or removed—on the Trackers page of the Administration menu. You can see this page in the following screenshot:

The order of trackers is not insignificant here. The same order is used when listing trackers in application forms. So, the most frequently used trackers or those that you want to be used most often should be on top. To change the order, you can use the green arrow icons: .

The Summary link in the top-right corner opens this page:

On this page, you can select which issue fields should be available for...

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