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Redmine Cookbook

You're reading from   Redmine Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to improve your skills in project management, team management, process improvement, and Redmine administration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286131
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aleksandar Pavic Aleksandar Pavic
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Running Redmine 2. Customizing Redmine FREE CHAPTER 3. Project Management with Redmine 4. Improving Team Performance 5. Regular and Planned Maintenance 6. Performance and System Tuning 7. Integrating Redmine with Other Software 8. Getting the Most Out of Scripts and Plugins 9. Troubleshooting 10. Making the Most of Redmine Index

Keeping track of your clients


Redmine offers multiple ways to manage clients. Either create a special role called client and expand it, or use some plugins, like the one described in this recipe. Considering this, if you are following Redmine's main use-case scenario of managing multiple projects simultaneously, it is good practice to install clients plugin, and be able to quickly find client's contact details.

How to do it…

To start using this plugin, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to your Redmine installation root.

  2. Grab the latest version from GitHub, by typing the following:

    git clone https://github.com/splbio/customer_plugin.git plugins/customer_plugin
    

    Note

    Do not confuse this fork of the plugin with the original Eric Davis-es repository which is unmaintained, on GitHub https://github.com/edavis10/redmine-customer-plugin/tree/master because the original version is incompatible with Redmine 3.0 and later.

  3. Install missing gems:

    bundle install
    
  4. Migrate the database:

    rake redmine:plugins:migrate...
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