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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

Text formatting with CKEditor


The default Redmine text formatting options are Markdown and Textile. Some users may have trouble learning syntax for these options. To improve user experience for non-technical users who would expect a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor instead of the standard Redmine editor, you can replace it with CKEditor through a plugin.

Getting ready

Server administrator access is required.

The requirement for this plugin is ImageMagick, to install it, refer to the Installing optional requirements recipe from Chapter 1, Installing and Running Redmine.

How to do it…

Plugin installation is pretty simple, as follows:

  1. Open the console and navigate to Redmine root:

    git-clone the plugin from following location: git clone https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor.git plugins/redmine_ckeditor
    
  2. Run the following:

    bundle install
    
  3. Migrate the database:

    rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
    
  4. Restart Redmine as follows:

    rm tmp/restart.txt && touch tmp/restart...
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