Redmine Issue Importer¶ ↑

User documentation for this plugin is at github.com/leovitch/redmine_importer/wiki.

This plugin is functional, included in multiprocess environments. The plugin in its current version is tested and used in production environment with Redmine 3.0.3-stable. The database is used for intermediate storage.

To install:

• Download the plugin to your ‘plugins/’ directory. Be sure to maintain the correct folder name, ‘redmine_importer’.

• Run rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

• Restart your redmine as appropriate (e.g., ruby script/rails server -e production or service httpd restart, etc.)

• Go to the Admin/Projects/../Modules

• Enable “Importer”

en, fr, de, zh, pt-BR, ru and ja localizations included. Only en and fr are up to date regarding error messages. If anyone wants to update translations, or report / fix bugs it will be appreciated.

User documentation at github.com/leovitch/redmine_importer/wiki.

Release history¶ ↑

• 1.3.0 *Forked from go2null version

  * Redmine 3.0 / Rails 4 compatibility
  * Added issue creation when no issue id is provided
  * Added matching users on full names and not only on login names
  * Support for custom list fields (from Zh's redmine_importer)
  * Changed some defaults in the options
  * improved field mapping page layout
  * Added French translations + moved hardcoded error messages to resources

• 1.4.0 * Added warnings in case of enumeration field not matched (status, tracker, priority)

  * Added messages for skipped lines
  * When not provided, tracker, priority and status fields are set to their default, rather than triggering an error message
  * Made field mapping work automatically on localised field names (and not only for English names)
  * Added an option for updating closed issues
  * Fixed a Page 500 error when CSV separator or text delimiter were set to blank by the user
  * Moved the right for the Import tab to the Project rights section
  * Fixed issue on CSV encodings when other than UTF-8
  * Added support for importing spent times on imported issues, using an Activity field and a User_spent_time field if provided. Otherwise, sets the spent time to the default activity, and for the user the issue is assigned to
  * Made option to disable sending notifications work (no mail from Redmine sent at all)

• 1.4.1 * Added support for enumeration custom fields (“Key/value list”)

• 1.4.2 * Fixed a bug on registering the mail interceptor to cancel mails on bulk import, so as not to interfere with redmine_notification_manager_plugin (requires the same change in redmine_notification_manager_pluginlibaction_mailer_base_extensions.rb)

• 1.4.3 * Changed calls to deprecated Ruby on Rails method find_by_name()

  * Used a new way to find Status, Tracker and Priority field values so that we can consider the translations if there are some done by the localizable plugin
  * Added a link on the issue ID for lines in error