As you use Redmine and ChiliProject you’ll probably be adding more projects to keep things organized. After awhile though you’ll end up with a lot of projects, many of which are complete.
What you will want to do is to Archive the old projects. Archiving will hide the project from all parts of the system but will keep it’s data around. Archiving a project helps reduce the clutter but still lets you access the project data if you need it in the future.
To archive a project, go to Administration > Projects > and click the Archive button next to the project name. Unarchiving a project is the same process, just use the Unarchive button instead.
the copy project feature is also a very handy feature. We’ve built out a template-project we use for our projects. Each new site we develop we copy that template and then customize it as needed. It certainly saves a bunch of time :)
I have the same thing for my plugins. Being able to make a template was the main reason my client wanted a copy project feature, they do a lot of websites that were about 90% the same set of tasks.
Archiving a project has the negative effect, that ‘Logged Time’ for issues of that project will be hidden too!
If you try to get an overview of the spent effort of the last months of all projects/mebers, effort of archived projects will not be shown/added.
This might be confusing at the first glance…