Embedding Redmine into a web application

There may be numerous reasons why would you want to display complete Redmine, or part of it as a part of some other website, for example, a corporate intranet portal, such as SharePoint, or some dashboard. In this scenario, you are going to learn how to display Redmine reports on time spent on particular projects in this current year, and hide the headers, leaving only real-time reports.

Getting ready

A Redmine administrator account is necessary. To prepare Redmine for these steps, the first thing to do is administration settings preparation:

1. Navigate to Administration | Settings | Authentication.

2. Uncheck the Authentication required checkbox.

   Note

   This will leave your public projects browsable by unauthenticated users.

3. Navigate to the project settings of the project that you want to access-- Project | Settings | Information.

4. Tick the Public checkbox.

5. Click the Save button.

The second thing to do is due to the same origin policy. If your Redmine is hosted on...