Preparing Redmine for use with FlexDeploy

FlexDeploy uses REST APIs to integrate with Redmine. To setup, login to Redmine with administrator privileges, go to Administration → Settings → REST API and select the Enable REST web service checkbox

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Add Status

To create new status, go to Administration → Issue Statuses

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The status once created will have an id, generally they start with 1 and are sequential in the same order as listed above. To get the ids, you can use Redmine's Issue Statuses REST API to verify status ids.

Workflow

FlexDeploy allows to update Redmine issue status during build and deploy. The status updates through REST API requires to allow status transitions for the role of the FlexDeploy user id. To set the status transition, please follow the below step, Administration → Workflow

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Go to the Workflow and setup the status transitions. Here is a sample setup for flexadmin role. Please follow this Issue statuses for more details.

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Users and Projects

The FlexDeploy user id role should have the necessary access to edit Features/Support/Bugs types. Please make sure to give the Roles and permissions accordingly for the role.

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