PluginCollapse » History » Revision 2
Revision 1 (Mischa The Evil, 2009-01-09 02:28) → Revision 2/14 (Mischa The Evil, 2009-01-09 02:29)
h1. Redmine Collapse plugin
Redmine Collapse is a plugin which transforms the default Redmine sidebar into a collapsible sidebar with additional tabs.
h2. Features
* Replaces the Redmine core's sidebar
** The provided sidebar is collapsible using JavaScript-helpers
** The default sidebar-content is available on the default Actions-tab
** An optional Projects-tab provides (nested) project-links of projects for which the current user has a role;
*** on Redmine 0.8.0 project-links are pointing to project overviews
*** on Redmine 0.8.1 project-links are pointing to the currently-watched views in the selected project (if available)
* Optionally, the core's project-selector drop-down menu can be hidden
* All the used strings can be centrally translated to every language (currently only English and Dutch are translated, for others stubs are provided)
h2. Compatibility
This plugin requires at least Redmine 0.8.0 and is compatible with the Redmine 0.8-Stable branch.
|_. Redmine version|_. Compatible?|
|@trunk@|Yes|
|@0.8.x@|Yes|
|@0.7.x@|No|
h2. Installation
1. Obtain the plugin by downloading the latest archive file attached to this page or from the upcoming website http://www.evil-dev.net.
2. Install the plugin as described "here":http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Plugins. _This plugin doesn't require migration_.
3. Login to your Redmine
h2. Configuration
This plugin can be configured under Administration -> Plugins -> Redmine Collapse plugin -> Configure. It provides the following implemented settings:
* Show the projects tab (default: yes)
* Hide the core project selector (default: no)
h2. Upgrade
1. Download the latest archive file attached to this page or from the upcoming website http://www.evil-dev.net.
2. Unzip the file to your Redmine into the vendor/plugins directory
3. Restart your Redmine
h2. Uninstall
1. Remove the directory @redmine_collapse@ from the plugin-directory _../vendor/plugins_.
2. Restart Redmine.
Make sure that no plugin-assets remain available in _../public/plugin_assets/redmine_collapse_.
h2. Credits
Thanks goes out to the following people:
* Eric Davis, Little Stream Software (http://www.littlestreamsoftware.com)
** Provided skeleton for Redmine core patches (see _lib/collapse_application_helper_patch.rb_)
* Sebastian Kurfürst, Typo3 Development Team (http://www.typo3.org)
** Author of the Redmine core hacks, to implement this feature for Typo3-Forge, used as a base for this plugin
* Lalit Patel, (http://www.lalit.org)
** Provided Javascript code to store data as JSON-strings in cookies (initially used by Sebastian)
h2. License
This plugin is licensed under the GNU GPL v2. See LICENSE.txt and GPL.txt for details.
h2. Project help
If you need help, would like to report a bug or would like to request a new feature you can contact the
maintainer at his upcoming "website":http://www.evil-dev.net. Or, join the @#redmine@-channel on the "freenode":http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml IRC network and see if the maintainer is connected (with the nickname @Mischa_The_Evil@).