Application Settings¶

• Table of contents
• Application Settings
  • General settings
    • Application title
    • Welcome text
    • Theme
    • Default language
    • Date format
    • Attachment max. size
    • Host name
    • Protocol
    • Text formatting
    • Wiki history compression
    • Feed content limit
    • Use Gravatar user icons
  • Authentication
    • Authentication required
    • Autologin
    • Self-registration
    • Lost password
  • Issue tracking
    • Allow cross-project issue relations
    • Display subprojects issues on main projects by default
    • Issues export limit
    • Default columns displayed on the issue list
  • Email notifications
    • Emission mail address
    • Blind carbon copy recipients (bcc)
    • Plain text mail
    • Emails footer
  • Repositories
    • Autofetch commits
    • Enable WS for repository management
    • Repositories encodings
    • Referencing issues in commit messages

General settings¶

Application title¶

Title which appears in heading of the application.

Welcome text¶

Text displayed on the home page of the application. This text can contain HTML tags.

Theme¶

This option lets you choose a custom theme.
Redmine is shipped with one alternate theme, which mainly provides issue list colorization based on issues priority.

Screenshot:

Themes are located in public/themes/. You can read more about Themes.

Default language¶

The default language is selected when the application could not determine the user's browser language. The default language is also used when sending email to multiple users. Default: English

Date format¶

Lets you choose how dates are displayed:

• Based on user's language: dates will be displayed specifically for each user, according to the format defined for its language
• Other formats: dates will always be displayed using the specified format

Default: Based on user's language

Attachment max. size¶

Maximum size of uploaded files (in kibi-bytes). Default: 2048 (i.e. 2 mebi-bytes )

Host name¶

Host name of the application. This name is used to write URL in emails sent to users.

Protocol¶

Protocol used to generate links in email notifications. Default: http

Text formatting¶

Formatting method applied to the "description" fields of the issues, news, documents...

Wiki history compression¶

Lets you activate compression for wiki history storage (reduces database size). Default: disabled

Feed content limit¶

Maximum number of records contained in RSS feeds. Default: 15

Use Gravatar user icons¶

If enabled, users Gravatars (globally recognized avatar) will be displayed in several places.

Authentication¶

Authentication required¶

If this option is checked, no page of the application is accessible to anonymous users. Users must sign to access the application. Default: No

Autologin¶

This option let users use the auto-login feature. Default: Disabled

Self-registration¶

This option lets you enable/disable new users self registration:

• disabled: users are not allowed to register
• account activation by email: new users receive an email containing a link used to active their accounts (users must provide a valid email address).
• manual account activation (default): new users' accounts are created but need administrator approval. Administrators receive an email informing them that an account is pending their approval.
• automatic account activation: new users can log in as soon as they have registered.

Lost password¶

If this option is checked, lost password functionality is available. Default: Yes

Issue tracking¶

Allow cross-project issue relations¶

If set to true, relations between issues from different projects can be created. Default: No

Display subprojects issues on main projects by default¶

If set to true, subprojects issues will be displayed by default on the issue list, calendar and gantt of the main projects (Since r1198). Default: Yes

Issues export limit¶

Maximum number of issues contained in CSV and PDF exports. Default: 500

Default columns displayed on the issue list¶

This setting lets you define which columns are displayed on the issue lists by default.
Only custom fields that are marked as 'For all projects' can be selected here.

Email notifications¶

Emission mail address¶

Email address used in the "From" field of messages sent to users.

Blind carbon copy recipients (bcc)¶

If set to true, email notification will be sent as Blind carbon copy. Default: Yes

Plain text mail¶

If set to true, emails are sent in plain text only (no HTML).

Emails footer¶

Here you can enter some text that will be appended to the emails sent by the application.

Repositories¶

Autofetch commits¶

If this option is activated, the application automatically retrieves the new revisions when a user consults the repository.

Default: Yes

You can disable this option and automate the call to Repository#fetch_changesets using cron to regularly retrieve the revisions for all of the repositories in the background.
Example:

ruby script/runner "Repository.fetch_changesets" -e production

You can also call this task from your repository in a post-commit or post-receive hook, so that changesets are fetched after each commit.
Here is a tutorial for doing so with git: http://finalcog.com/remine-git-post-receive

Enable WS for repository management¶

This option should be activated only if you installed the script for automatic SVN repository creation. Default: No

Repositories encodings¶

This option lets you specify prefered encodings for repository files (multiple values allowed, comma separated). These encodings are used to convert files content and diff to UTF-8 so that they're properly displayed in the browser.
When entering multiple encodings, the first valid encoding regarding the file content is used.

For French users, this option can be for example set to:

UTF-8, ISO 8859-15, CP1252

For Japanese users:

ISO-2022-JP, EUC-JP, UTF-8, SHIF_JIS, WINDOWS-31J

Referencing issues in commit messages¶

When fetched from the repositories, commit messages are scanned for referenced or fixed issue IDs.
These options lets you define keywords that can be used in commit message to reference or fix issues automatically, and the status to apply to fixed issues.

Default keywords are:

• for referencing issues: refs, references, IssueID
• for fixing issues: fixes, closes

There's no default status defined for fixed issue. You'll have to specify it if you want to enable auto closure of issues.
If you want to reference issues without using keywords, enter a single star: * in the Referencing keywords setting. In this case, any issue ID found in the message will be linked to the changeset.

Example of a working commit message using default keywords:

This commit refs #1, #2 and fixes #3

This message would reference issues 1 and 2 and automatically fix issue 3.
After a keyword issue IDs can be separated with a space, a comma or &.