redmine_project_filtering

Redmine plugin that provides additional controls for filtering projects in the main project list.

The project support the filtering using custom fields.

The plugin has been tested with Redmine 3.0.1: due to time constraints, it has not been tested with previous versions. If you'd like to try it with a previous version, please make sure to edit the requires_redmine directive in the init.rb file to suit your installation. If it works for you, please let me know and I'll update the init.rb file accordingly.

The plugin is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

For this plugin I used bluezio plugin as starting point: https://github.com/bluezio/redmine_project_filtering

Installation

To install this plugin, just clone it into your plugins subdirectory:

cd plugins
git clone git://github.com/gianlucanatali/redmine_project_filtering

After cloning the repository, you will need to restart your Redmine instance so it picks up the new plugin.

Design notes

The goal of this plugin is to remain as simple as possible: it does not add any new tables or assets itself.

The plugin integrates into Redmine through two advanced mechanisms:

lib/project_filtering_hook_listener.rb has a view hook listener that adds the required HTML to the project list sidebar.
lib/project_filtering_project_controller_patch.rb wraps the index method of the ProjectsController to add the appropriate filter.

Due to the way the ProjectsController is patched, if another plugin wraps the index method in the same way, this plugin will stop working. This is a limitation of the ActiveSupport alias_method_chain method.