Using the assigned issues summary e-mail

Ideal work organization is to have your employees or team members come to work early in the morning, open Redmine or the e-mail client, a list of tasks created for them for the current day awaits them, and they start to work, task by task, promptly updating Redmine, either directly or through third-party applications. Luckily, Redmine can get you closer to this scenario by providing issues summary e-mails.

Getting ready

You need server administrator access with access to cron jobs or scheduled tasks.

You need a test user in Redmine for which you can read its e-mail, and tasks assigned for that user due within next 5 days.

How to do it…

First, we are going to test the rake task for a reminder script:

1. Open the console and navigate to Redmine root.

2. Test the following command by replacing the USER_ID with the real ID of your test user number (the default account admin is usually number 1):

   rake redmine:send_reminders days=7 users="USER_ID" RAILS_ENV="production...