Though, I’m a newbie in Ruby and RoR development. But after 4-5 hours googling, I decided write a Redmine import plugin for those tons of issues in Excel. So, I downloaded Redmine source code, Aptana Studio, then learn how to program with Ruby and RoR…

Finally, I built a plugin named redmine_importer, and it works. Thanks to the 1st user, my colleague, Vince Zhang

redmine_importer 0.3.1 features:

• Import CSV file, user define split and wrap character
• User define CSV column and issue field mapping
• Update exsit issues by user defined unique field
• Ignore none-exsitent issue, avoid re-update closed issue
• As a project’s module, can configured by project manager
• L10n, with English and Chinese locale

Install

• Make sure you have “fastercsv” gem installed(vertion 1.4.0 is tested): #gem install fastercsv
• Extract .zip file to “redmine/vendor/plugins/”
• restart your redmine, do some config in permission settings.

Tested in Redmine 0.8.2

Enjoy!

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