Programmable Processes for Redmine in the Terminal

Instead of tediously clicking through the Redmine user interface and doing the same thing over and over again, you can describe how it works once. Then you can execute the process in the terminal. redmineBOOST will ask you for the necessary data and do the rest. Increase the productivity of your daily work with Redmine by using redmineBOOST in the terminal.

An Example

Let's say you track issues for a project in Redmine. The sample 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 this:

Simple, right? To illustrate how much you had to type, the user input is highlighted. Now let's see what it would look if you did it all in the Redmine user interface:

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

Benefits

With redmineBOOST even the simplest tasks can be boosted.

Process Description

And how does it work? The following figure shows the example redmineBOOST process described 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;
    }
}