Redmine Collapse plugin

A plugin to transform the default Redmine sidebar into a collapsible sidebar on the left side.

Features

• Replaces the Redmine core's sidebar
  • The provided sidebar is collapsible using JavaScript-helpers
  • The default sidebar-content is available on the default Actions-tab
  • An optional Projects-tab provides (nested) project-links of projects for which the current user has a role
    • on Redmine 0.8.0 project-links are pointing to project overviews
    • on Redmine 0.8.1 project-links are pointing to the currently-watched views in the selected project (if available)
• Optionally, the core's project-selector drop-down menu can be hidden
• Used strings can be centrally translated to every language (currently only English and Dutch are translated, for others stubs are provided)

Compatibility

This plugin is compatible with the Redmine 0.8-Stable branch.

Installation

1. Download the plugin using the latest archive file from http://www.evil-dev.net.
2. Install the plugin as described at http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Plugins (this plugin doesn't require migration).
3. Login to your Redmine

Configuration

This plugin can be configured under Administration -> Plugins -> Redmine Collapse plugin -> Configure. It provides the following implemented settings:

• Show the projects tab (default: yes)
• Hide the core project selector (default: no)

Upgrade

1. Download the latest archive file from http://www.evil-dev.net
2. Unzip the file to your Redmine into the vendor/plugins directory
3. Restart your Redmine

Uninstall

1. Remove the directory "redmine_collapse" from the plugin-directory "../vendor/plugins".
2. Restart Redmine.

Make sure that no plugin-assets remain available in "../public/plugin_assets/redmine_collapse".

Credits

Thanks goes out to the following people:

• Eric Davis, Little Stream Software (http://www.littlestreamsoftware.com) ** Provided skeleton for Redmine core patches (see lib/collapse_application_helper_patch.rb)
• Sebastian Kurfürst, Typo3 Development Team (http://www.typo3.org) ** Author of the Redmine core hacks, to implement this feature for Typo3-Forge, used as a base for this plugin
• Lalit Patel, (http://www.lalit.org) ** Provided Javascript code to store data as JSON-strings in cookies (initially used by Sebastian)

License

This plugin is licensed under the GNU GPL v2. See LICENSE.txt and GPL.txt for details.

Project help

If you need help, would like to report a bug or request a new feature you can contact the maintainer at his website