Redmine

Redmine UX Toolkit¶

Redmine UX Toolkit is a usability and productivity plugin for Redmine 6.1.x.

It adds practical workflow shortcuts, personal dashboards, issue checklists, configurable notices, status hints, safer links and administration helpers while staying close to Redmine's native UI, workflow and permission model.

Main features¶

• Configurable landing page after login
• Global, project-specific and tracker-specific issue notices
• Favorite projects and favorite issue filters
• Recently visited issues and projects
• "Assign to me" and "Assign to me and start" issue actions
• Quick status actions based on Redmine workflows
• Lightweight issue checklists
• Global checklist templates
• Manual checklist template insertion
• Automatic checklist templates by tracker
• Optional close guards for open checklist items and open subtasks
• Automatic watcher handling for issue authors and commenters
• My Work dashboard
• Configurable dashboard blocks
• Issue badges for overdue, due today, stale and unassigned issues
• Issue hint box
• Secure handling of external links
• Admin-only Redmine log file viewer
• Configurable navigation link visibility

Screenshots¶

My Work dashboard¶

My Work dashboard with assigned, due, overdue, favorite and recently visited work blocks.

Issue page with quick actions, checklist, badges and hints¶

Issue detail page combining quick actions, lightweight checklists, state badges and practical issue hints.

Plugin settings¶

Central settings for quick actions, issue badges, checklists, close guards and watcher automation.

Checklist templates¶

Administrators can maintain reusable checklist templates with ordered items for repeatable ticket work.

New issue notices¶

Global, project-specific and tracker-specific notices help users create clearer tickets from the start.

Landing page settings¶

Configure default post-login destinations and decide whether users may choose their own landing page.

Links and navigation settings¶

Control safe external link behavior and the visibility of common Redmine navigation links.

Admin log file viewer¶

The admin log viewer shows recent lines from readable log files inside the Redmine log directory.

Compatibility¶

• Redmine 6.1.x
• Designed for the Redmine 6.1 release line
• Older Redmine versions are not targeted

Project page and download¶

More information, screenshots and download:

https://www.saas-secure.com/online-services/redmine-ux-toolkit.html

1. Requirements

• Redmine 6.1.x
• Ruby version compatible with Redmine 6.1
• Rails version shipped with Redmine 6.1

1. Installation

Clone or copy the plugin into the Redmine plugins directory:

```
cd /path/to/redmine/plugins
git clone https://example.com/redmine_ux_toolkit.git
```

Replace the repository URL with the actual public repository URL.

Run plugin migrations:

```
cd /path/to/redmine
bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
```

Restart Redmine.

For Passenger/Apache installations, restart Apache or the application process according to your setup.

1. Configuration

After installation, open:

```
Administration → Plugins → Redmine UX Toolkit → Configure
```

Enable and configure the desired UX Toolkit features.

Some features use Redmine project permissions. Review the role permissions under:

```
Administration → Roles and permissions
```

1. Uninstallation

Revert plugin migrations:

```
cd /path/to/redmine
bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=redmine_ux_toolkit VERSION=0 RAILS_ENV=production
```

Remove the plugin directory:

```
rm -rf /path/to/redmine/plugins/redmine_ux_toolkit
```

Restart Redmine.