Redmine Pills

One of the most used Redmine features is the ability to allocate hours to tasks. Here I will explain how to get the total spent time from all issues in a project and show this sum in a project field.

In Redmine's top menu there is an option called “Help”. IMO this option can confuse the user, since she might reasonably think that the link will lead her to a help section inside the Redmine application So I think it is very legit to hide this option from the top menu. There are several methods to achieve this.

In Redmine tasks and subtasks have a close relationship. For instance we can avoid a parent task to be closed if a subtask is still open. But we can make this relationship even more dependent by means of the Custom workflows plugin. Here we will see how to modify a parent task field value depending on a subtask field.

If you want to convert a very long dropdown of a list custom field in a more user friendly search box, this is how to do it.

Maybe you don't know it yet: in Redmine you can not only log spent and estimated time in hours but also in minutes.

Sometimes you would need to show a user field in the issue page. For instance: what is the user department of the issue's author? This is something we can achieve with a very useful plugin: Computed Custom Fields plugin.
Here I will explain you how to

When creating a subtask in Redmine you may want it to inherit some values from the parent task. Here I will explain step by step how.

You migrated/installed Redmine but now you can’t upload files to issues. There could be different reasons.

Redmine's home page is not a very useful welcome page. Why not redirect the users directly to their “My Page” or their projects list after login?

Using your corporate color in the header gives a branded look to your Redmine application.

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If you want to show the issue fields in one single column, there's a quick tweak to achieve this.

If your project management process implies creating many subtasks, it could be very productive if subtasks inherit some details from the parent task. Here's the deal!

In some use cases description field isn't very important. However this field is the largest in a new issue form. You can reduce its size.

Receive notifications with a From address instead of a plain email address

Customize the login/register screen with colors, gradients or background images.

For usability reasons you might prefer that fields are shown in on single column. This is a quick tweak to get this done.