Project Within a Project Within a Project

My apologies to Jan for posting this yesterday as a defect, I overlooked that detail :-)

Is it possible to create several project sub projects?
For instance:

1.Product Development
a. Fisher Price
i. Robot
1. RBTest 1
2. RBTest 2
3. RBTest 3
ii. Eye Poker
1. EPTest 1
2. EPTest 2

b. Tyco
i. Hover Car
1. HCTest1
2. HCTest2

We have one instance of Redmine installed on our intranet. When I started using this I had intended to use it for only 1 purpose… to track Tool Design Requisitions. Once I struggled to get all my internal customers to use it most of them learned to love it. I/We have started to expand its use across the company. I have run into a scenario that I am not sure how to BEST move forward. I will try to explain, but keep in mind… I am NOT in our IT department (I am an Engineer) and to get IT support is pretty close to impossible. I say that because my first and only remedy to this situation would be to install another instance of Redmine.
Currently we have projects set up as follows:
Tool Design
MFG Planning
Assembly
So on…..
They are basically departments within our company. People will pick the area of need and create an “Issue” which has custom fields to fill out for a need from that department. Simple and works well.

I want to introduce our Program Management team to Redmine. So I have set up a new project called “Program Management” under that I have created sub projects for current customers (say Fisher Price for example).
With that said here is my dilemma…. Say we are working on a robot for Fisher Price…. We have several test units that we call TU1, TU2 and so on. I would like to be able to make more sub projects to track all these test units…. A person could select Fisher Price and be able to select the Wiki to catch on “The Plan of Attack” and important details. From there they can select sub projects of each test unit.

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RE: Project Within a Project Within a Project - Added by Jan Niggemann (redmine.org team member) over 11 years ago

Project Within a Project Within a Project
I would like to be able to make more sub projects to track all these test units…

...which is entirely possible, at least in redmine 2.2.1, I just tried it.

What version of redmine do you use? Or did I get you wrong and you were looking for other ways to do that and wanted more of a a recommendation which way to go?

RE: Project Within a Project Within a Project - Added by Boyd Thaxton over 11 years ago

What version of redmine do you use? Or did I get you wrong and you were looking for other ways to do that and wanted more of a a recommendation which way to go?

We are using: Redmine 0.8.7.stable.3175

With that said I guess I am looking for a recommendation of how to do it. Our IT dept is extremely busy rebuilding our whole system here, so unless it is a "do or die" situation I would never get them to upgrade Redmine.... Plus the fact they would like to get rid of Redmine altogether (for whatever reason).

I am Mechanical Engineer, so I am not a cumputer/sytems whiz but I can usually muddle through things pretty well.... If Redmine is installed on our internal intranet is it even possible for ME to upgrade it?

RE: Project Within a Project Within a Project - Added by Jan Niggemann (redmine.org team member) over 11 years ago

Boyd Thaxton wrote:

We are using: Redmine 0.8.7.stable.3175

gasp...

Our IT dept is extremely busy rebuilding our whole system here, so unless it is a "do or die" situation I would never get them to upgrade Redmine....

Your version is so old that is has security issues. Make IT read Security_Advisories, perhaps that'll make them upgrade redmine?

Plus the fact they would like to get rid of Redmine altogether (for whatever reason).

Sad and strange, but they might have valid reasons.

If Redmine is installed on our internal intranet is it even possible for ME to upgrade it?

Not really, unless you have access to the server. But then again, with the security issues you could try to take over the server ;-)

I am Mechanical Engineer, so I am not a cumputer/sytems whiz but I can usually muddle through things pretty well....

OK, so let's get going.

With that said I guess I am looking for a recommendation of how to do it.

My problem is: I don't know which features were present in 0.8 and which were not.
What would you like to "do" with the test units? Do you need to track issues for each test unit? Then you could perhaps use the category field (if that already existed in 0.8)...

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