Chapter 7. Access Control and Workflow

You might expect to see the most major part of the administration menu being discussed in a single chapter, but that's not going to happen. In this book, I'm trying to review Redmine by its functional parts and not by sections of its web interface. Anyway, this chapter discusses the largest number of pages of this menu, as they are related to the access control and workflow.

On the other hand, you might wonder why the access control and workflow are reviewed in a single chapter. In Redmine, the workflow is a set of rules for the issue life cycle that consider trackers (issue types) and member roles. And it's actually member roles that define access permissions.

Also, this chapter is intended mostly for administrators as the administration menu is visible only to this type of user. However, it should also be interesting for project managers as it explains how to configure Redmine to ease and optimize the development process, in...