Mastering Redmine

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with Redmine
• Chapter 2: Installing Redmine
• Chapter 3: Configuring Redmine
• Chapter 4: Issue Tracking
• Chapter 5: Managing Projects
• Chapter 6: Time Tracking
• Chapter 7: Text Formatting
• Chapter 8: Access Control and Workflow
• Chapter 9: Personalization
• Chapter 10: Plugins and Themes
• Chapter 11: Customizing Redmine
• Index

Preface¶

Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with Redmine¶

• What is Redmine?
  • Why does Redmine succeed
• Walk through the Redmine interface
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite
• Textile or Markdown?
• Selecting a Source Control Management (SCM)
• Selecting a web server and an application server
• Redmine or ChiliProject?
• Recent versions of Redmine and ChiliProject
  • Redmine versions
  • ChiliProject versions
• Helping Redmine
• Summary

Chapter 2: Installing Redmine¶

• Preface
• Installing Redmine from the package
  • Installing Redmine and MySQL server
    • Configuring MySQL server package
    • Configuring Redmine package
  • Installing Apache and Passenger
  • Connecting Redmine and Apache
  • Verifying and completing installation
  • Conclusion
• Installing Redmine from sources
  • Downloading and installing Redmine
  • Installing RubyGems and Bundler
    • Resolving Bundler errors
  • Installing MySQL client and ImageMagick
  • Installing dependencies using Bundler
  • Installing MySQL server, Apache, and Passenger
  • Setting up the database
  • Finalizing Redmine installation
  • Configuring Apache
• Using TurnKey Redmine appliance
• Using BitNami Redmine stack
• Maintaining Redmine
• Summary

Chapter 3: Configuring Redmine¶

• The first thing to fix
• Administration settings
  • General
    • Cache formatted text
    • Other tips
  • Display
    • Default language
    • Using Gravatar user icons
    • Default Gravatar image
    • Display attachment thumbnails
  • Authentication
    • Allow OpenID login and registration
    • LDAP authentication
    • Enable REST web service
  • E-mail integration
    • Sending e-mails
    • Receiving e-mails
  • Repositories integration
    • Configuring repositories
• Troubleshooting
• Summary

Chapter 4: Issue Tracking¶

• Creating an issue
  • Issue categories
  • Issues and project versions
• Issue page
  • Subtasks
  • Related issues
• Issue list
  • Custom queries
• Updating issue
  • Bulk editing
• Getting updates on issues
• Issue related settings
  • Enabling or disabling issue tracking
  • Configuring issue tracking globally
  • Issues and repository integration
• Summary

Chapter 5: Managing Projects¶

• Modules
  • Issue tracking
    • Roadmap
    • Version page
  • News
  • Documents
  • Files
  • Wiki
  • Repository
  • Forums
  • Calendar
  • Gantt
• Global configuration
• Creating a project
• Basic project tabs
  • Overview
  • Activity
• Configuring projects
  • Information
  • Modules
  • Members
  • Versions
  • Wiki
• Closing a project
• Project maintenance best practices
  • Custom queries
• Project list
• Administrating projects
  • Copying projects
  • Archiving
• Summary

Chapter 6: Time Tracking¶

• Using Redmine time tracking
• Defining activity
• Tracking time
  • Tracking time using commit messages
• Checking spent time
  • Time spent for issues
  • Time spent for versions
  • Time spent for projects
  • Project activity
  • Your time entries
• Generating reports
  • Details tab
  • Report tab
• Summary

Chapter 7: Text Formatting¶

• Formatting text in Redmine
  • Wiki toolbar
  • Preview
  • Placing the linked images
• Wiki formatting syntax
  • Basics
  • Quotes
  • Lists
  • Images
  • Links
    • Normal links
    • Internal links
  • Code
  • Tables
  • Macros
    • Table of contents
    • Collapsed block
    • Thumbnail
    • Include
    • Child pages
    • Hello world
    • Macro list
  • Advanced syntax
    • Alignment
    • Padding
    • Custom style and language
    • Textile span
    • Disabling element
    • Table advanced syntax
• Quick syntax reference
• Summary

Chapter 8: Access Control and Workflow¶

• Roles
  • Permissions
    • Project block
    • Forums block
    • Calendar block
    • Documents block
    • Files block
    • Gantt block
    • Issue tracking block
    • News block
    • Repository block
    • Time tracking block
    • Wiki block
• Permissions report
• Trackers
• Issue statuses
• Workflow
  • Issue status transitions
  • Issue fields permissions
  • Quick functions
    • Copying configuration
    • Summary link
• Modifying workflow
  • Adding roles
  • Adding trackers
  • Adding issue statuses
• Practical example
• Summary

Chapter 9: Personalization¶

• Automatic account creation
  • OpenID
  • LDAP
• Gravatar
• Personal page
  • Issues assigned to me
  • Watched issues
  • Spent time
  • Documents
  • Reported issues
  • Latest news
  • Calendar
• Getting updates
  • Notification settings
  • Watching
  • News feeds
• Personalizing issue lists
• Summary

Chapter 10: Plugins and Themes¶

• Looking up plugins
  • Official registry
  • Github
• Installing a plugin
  • Uninstalling a plugin
• Plugins review
  • Meta
  • Exception Handler
  • Mylyn Connector
  • Screenshot Paste
  • Lightbox
  • Code Review
  • Niko Cale
  • Stuff To Do
• Themes
  • Installing themes
  • Themes review
    • Basecamp
    • Modula Mojito
    • A1
    • Highrise
• Summary

Chapter 11: Customizing Redmine¶

• Custom fields
  • Custom field options
    • Required
    • Visible
    • Editable
    • For all projects
    • Searchable
    • Used as a filter
  • Custom field formats
    • Text
    • Long text
    • Integer
    • Float
    • List
    • Date
    • Boolean
    • User
    • Version
  • Customized object types
    • Issues
    • Spent time
    • Projects
    • Versions
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Activities (time tracking)
    • Issue priorities
    • Document categories
• Customizing with Textile
  • Warnings and other boxes
  • Icons for text
  • Table-based layout
• Customizing themes
• Customizing with plugins
  • Writing a simple plugin
  • Customizing view files
  • Using hooks
• Summary

Index¶