RedmineGroups » History » Version 4
  jonathan ferguson, 2010-10-29 03:28 
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| 1 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | h1. Managing Groups  | 
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| 3 | 2 | jonathan ferguson | As of 0.9, Administrators can define groups of users in Redmine.  | 
| 4 | Groups can be added as members of projects just like regular users, using the same Roles too.  | 
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| 6 | When adding a user to an existing group, this user inherits of all of the group privileges.  | 
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| 9 | h2. Creating groups  | 
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| 11 | 2 | jonathan ferguson | To create a group, do the following:  | 
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| 13 | # Click Administration  | 
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| 14 | # Click Groups  | 
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| 15 | # Click New Group  | 
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| 16 | # Type the name of your group in Name  | 
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| 17 | # Click Create  | 
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| 20 | h2. Adding members and associating projects  | 
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| 22 | 2 | jonathan ferguson | To add members to a group, do the following:  | 
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| 24 | # In Administration >> Groups  | 
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| 25 | # Click the name of the Group you wish to change.  | 
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| 26 | # You'll see 3 tabs: General, Users, Projects  | 
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| 27 | 3 | jonathan ferguson | ** General  | 
| 28 | *** Change the name by editing the Name field  | 
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| 29 | ** Users  | 
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| 30 | *** Add users by checking the username box for each user  | 
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| 31 | *** Click Add  | 
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| 32 | ** Projects  | 
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| 33 | *** Select a project from the pop-up menu  | 
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| 34 | *** Set the Role  | 
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| 35 | *** Click Add  | 
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| 37 | !RedmineMemberToGroupNew.png!  | 
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| 38 | Figure 1: Example Group Users tab  | 
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| 40 | !RedmineMembersToGroup.png!  | 
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| 41 | Figure 2: Adding Members to a Group  | 
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| 43 | !RedmineGroupToProjectNew.png!  | 
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| 44 | Figure 3: Example Group Project tab  | 
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| 46 | !RedmineGroupToProjects.png!  | 
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| 47 | Figure 4: Associating a group to a project (from the Group context)  |