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Revision 2 (Chaoqun Zou, 2008-08-11 16:21) → Revision 3/16 (Chaoqun Zou, 2008-08-11 16:30)

h1. ezFAQ Plugin (current version 0.0.1) 

 A FAQ management plugin to collect the frequently asked questions. 
 Using ezFAQ, you can add a question, assign someone to answer it, or modify the answer, ezFAQ will record each modifications.  
 Further more, ezFAQ can send notify email to the assigned user(version 0.0.2), and generate a pdf document of all the valid FAQs(version 0.0.3). 

 It can be downloaded from github: 
   
 http://github.com/zouchaoqun/ezfaq/tree/master 

 Screenshot: 

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 h2. To install from git: 

 (Git Version < 1.5.3) 
 <pre> 
 cd {RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins 
 git clone git://github.com/zouchaoqun/ezfaq.git 
 </pre> 

 (Git Version >= 1.5.3 -- Because the "git-rails" gem uses Git Submodules introduced in ver. 1.5.3) 
 <pre> 
 gem install git-rails git-rails 
 git-rails install git://github.com/zouchaoqun/ezfaq.git 
 </pre> 

 h2. Plugin setup 

 1. Install will_paginate gem 
   
   
    gem install will_paginate 

 2. Add will_paginate to the last of enviroment.rb 
   
   
    require 'will_paginate' 

 3. Install the plugin as described "here":http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Plugins (this plugin *requires* migration).  

 4. Copy the plugin directory(ezfaq_plugin) into the vendor/plugins directory 

 4. Migrate plugin: 
   
   
    rake db:migrate_plugins 

 5. Start Redmine 

 6. In your project in Redmine, go to "Project settings" : 

    On the "Modules" tab, enable the module by checking "Ezfaq". 

 h2. Using ezFAQ 

 # 1. Registered users can add new faqs by click the 'New FAQ' link. 
 # 2. Privileged users can modify faqs, modify faq categories by click the appropriate link. 
 # 3. Privileged users can modify the FAQ list's note which will be displayed before the list and exported export to the pdf document. 
 # 4. When a faq is created and assigned to someone, the assigned user will receive a notify email to complete the answer.