Programmable Processes for Redmine

Instead of tedious clicking through the Redmine user interface and doing the same things over and over again, you can describe how it works once. Then you can execute the process from the command line. redmineBOOST will ask you for the necessary data and will take care of the rest. Boost the productivity of your daily work with Redmine using redmineBOOST on the command line.

An Example

Let's say you track issues for a project in Redmine. The example process described creates an issue and asks for a project, subject, tracker, description and note. The command line based execution of a redmineBOOST process might look like the following:

Easy, right? To clarify how much you had to type, the user input is emphasised. Now let's see how this would look if you did it all in the Redmine user interface:

That's a lot of user interaction. And we didn't even bother to add everything you need to do.

Benefits

With redmineBOOST even simple tasks get boosted.

Process Description

And how does it work? The following figure shows the described example redmineBOOST process from above. A domain specific language is used for description.

// Present choice for a project
let issueProject = Choice<Project> {
    description: "Select project:"
    options: GetProjects()
}.value

// Show line editor to enter issue subject
let issueSubject = LineInput {
    description: "Issue subject:"
}.value

// Present choice for a tracker
let issueTracker = Choice<Tracker> {
    description: "Select tracker:"
    options: GetTrackers()
}.value

// Show editor to enter multiline description
let issueDescription = TextInput {
    description: "Issue description:"
}.value

// Show editor to enter multiline note
let issueNote = TextInput {
    description: "Issue note:"
}.value

// Create issue with provided data
Issue {
    assignedTo: GetCurrentUser()
    project: issueProject
    subject: issueSubject
    tracker: issueTracker
    description: issueDescription
    Note {
        text: issueNote
    }
}