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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

Extending user profiles with additional data

In the spirit of flexibility, Redmine lets users customize various objects inside the application. The objects can be: user, group, project, activity, version, document, spent time, issue priority, or document category. This recipe applies to any object.

Note

The custom fields feature is extremely important. It lets users customize Redmine to fit various purposes.

For example, you can change the type of tracker from Bug to Virtual server and extend this tracker with custom fields, such as RAM or Disk size, and keep track of your virtual servers. Then, you can use filtering features to find all the servers using Windows or any other custom fields that you figured out you need in your Redmine implementation.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have administrative permissions on the Redmine system. If you have them, the Administration menu item will be visible at the top left, prior to the Help link.

How to do it…

To create new custom field for User...

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Redmine Cookbook
Published in: Feb 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781785286131
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