Topic: Reports and analytics add-on for Highrise

I just asked our solutions team if they can do they kind of reporting you are asking for using youcalc.

The answer is yes, we can implement a report that lists activities and deals for all users or for a selected user. The lists would contain links back to Highrise, allowing you to click on an activity or deal to open it in Highrise. You can see a similar report list here (different context): http://www.youcalc.com/apps/1226931095311 – if you click the “Show me these deals in a list” link.

We could set the default to current week and then add a week selection filter.

We could make the list sortable by category, etc.

Is this what you would be looking for?

Topic: Reports and analytics add-on for Highrise

Thanks for your input Peter.
We actually just launched two more reporting apps for Highrise:
- Cases Analyzer – get the full overview of your cases and easily identify stalled cases.
- Contacts Analyzer – are your contacts tagged in a unified way? How many contacts do you have with each tag? Use this app to clean up and streamline your tags use.

This is a listing of all the Highrise reports: http://www.youcalc.com/apps/highrise

Not sure this is exactly what you are looking for but please take a look at let me know what you find is missing – we are very eager to work directly with feedback from HR users.

Topic: Reports and analytics dashboards via the API

I represent youcalc.com – we have just launched two reporting & analytics dashboards running on the Highrise API, and we are extremely interested in feed-back from the Highrise user and developer community.

We have so far launched a Deals Pipeline dashboard which pulls data from the deals API and analyzes your deals, with interactive charts of pending, won and lost deals, plus a currency converter, which pulls live exchange rates from a bank API, and lets you convert and sum deals in different currencies.

And we launched an Activity Analyzer, which gives an overview of who in your organization is generating most leads.

You can try the apps on your own Highrise data here: http://www.youcalc.com/apps/highrise

We can build 100% custom analytics apps on all 37Signals APIs, and we are interested in feedback from the 37Signals user and developer community on what is needed. If you have ideas or feedback, please let me know in this forum or by contacting my directly at: ram[at]youcalc[dot]com

Forgive me if this is inappropriate for the forum – I promise not to spam it with youcalc commercials, but we need your feed-back, so I have posted this in two places on the forum.

Rasmus
co-founder
www.youcalc.com

Topic: Reports and analytics add-on for Highrise

I represent youcalc.com – we have just launched two reporting & analytics dashboards for Highrise, and we are extremely interested in feed-back from the Highrise user community.

We have so far launched a Deals Pipeline dashboard which analyzes your deals, with interactive charts of pending, won and lost deals, plus a currency converter, which pulls live exchange rates from a bank API, and lets you convert and sum deals in different currencies.

And we launched an Activity Analyzer, which gives an overview of who in your organization is generating most leads.

You can try the apps on your own Highrise data here: http://www.youcalc.com/apps/highrise

We can build 100% custom analytics apps on all 37Signals APIs, and we are interested in feedback from the 37Signals user community on what is needed. If you have ideas or feedback, please let me know in this forum or by contacting my directly at: ram[at]youcalc[dot]com

Forgive me if this is inappropriate for the forum – I promise not to spam it with youcalc commercials, but we need your feed-back, so I have posted this in two places on the HR forum.

Rasmus
co-founder
www.youcalc.com

Topic: Share Journals

I agree very much – but not just within Backpack. I’d love to be able to share my journal entries, and current status, as separate feeds to the outside internet environ. This would be great for feed-based web-mashups (for instance, to pipe status updates from Backpack into a Twitter account).

Topic: Share Journals

I agree with Garrett. It would be great if I can share my Journal with others just like any other Backpack page.

Topic: Share Journals

I love the new journal feature, but I think for someone like me (freelance developer who works with others regularly) it won’t be useful until I can share my journal with other people.

I have my own Backpack account, and I work regularly with other people who have their own accounts. We each have private pages and stuff, and we share pages with each other too. It would be nice (especially near the end of projects when we’re all working on bugfixes, etc) to be able to “subscribe” to their journals as if we’re all on the same account.

Topic: Hosting videos?

My company, Switch Media, does white-label video hosting for enterprise customers and has recently launched a product for the consumer market.

I’ve created a public page with a demo video and contact details, if you’re interested:

https://switchmedia.backpackit.com/pub/1469411

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

date/time stamps for note posts only show month and day. it would be nice if year were there as well (at least for posts that are not in the current year).

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

With the new upgrade it seems like the login page for the mobile version of the site has changed to require a username in addition to a password. That seems kind of unnecessary to me since my username is already in URL itself. Having to type out my username on my phone keypad every time is really annoying, and one of the things I really liked about the mobile version was how easy it was to log in with just the password. Is there any possibility of that being changed back to the old functionality at any point or was there some reason that the username had to be added to the mobile login form?

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

(from above post) “into their grouping area”

This is my point exactly. Everyday is an adventure now. My emails are not falling into a group area, they are at the top of the page, or who knows where and why. Can anyone please explain to us. Also, Instead of jpg files becoming gallery images, they are just files sitting at the top of the page. We are also getting duplicate emails on them and I’m not sure if this is you or our server who is forwarding but we have a single email coming in 7 times or more.

This is annoying and random. Now I’m looking to see if there is another way to go as this is messier than what we had before and will take an hour out of each days’ workload to try to reorganize. Messy.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

OK. I actually hate these style revisions. I’ve been a subscriber since May of 2005, and I was such for a reason: clean organization of content. I have a dropbox page with ninety or so word files, fifty writeboards, and a very long checklist, and these revisions took it from being a clean, easily scanned page to a giant inefficient mess resembling a website in 1995, only with better fonts and graphics. At the very least, bring back two column file displays, and whether or not things can be moved all over the page, save a headache and at least post new writeboards, files, etc, into their grouping area. I simply don’t understand how removing logical functionality in favor of some chaotic mess is an upgrade. I have a server. I could build a big chaotic mess, myself. Your service filled a need in my workflow, and, based on your stated design principles, I hadn’t expected that to change.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

@Gayle:

I agree re your second point (and first, see my post above). If you have hundreds of pages, you are surely NOT going to have them all in the sidebar. The only way to move them is to go to the page, enable show in sidebar, go back to the first page and move the content, then go back to the second page and re-hide it.

Better idea in my opinion: be able to click an arrow next to each piece of content that displays all your pages in sub-menus: ALL PAGES, or BY TAGS. Go to the appropriate sub-menu, find the page, and viola – done!

Note that I say list by tags – again, if you have hundreds of pages, just displaying them all in a menu would be as silly as doing so in the sidebar. It would be a nightmare.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

I’m SUPER happy with the update.

I do NOT wish to complain, however my workflow was interrupted by two things:

- I am one of the people who used the Links a lot and now I am a little lost without it; clearly I can make <a href> tags but I have to first go to the page I want to link to and copy its URL, then come back to the page I’m linking from and paste… it takes a lot longer now and isn’t nearly as lovely as the Links was before with its drop-down menu. I especially miss making a new link to a brand new page in one step.

- The second thing is that we can only move content to other pages if the page we’re moving to is in the sidebar…? I only have a couple of pages in my sidebar (each of them a main topic, with Links (sigh) to the relevant pages). That really limits where I can move my content to.

Anyway. Just my two cents. I upgraded a couple of months ago and I’m really happy I did – but it’d be nice to hear any thoughts about these two issues.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

Yeah, search is absolutely worthless! I can easily skim the titles of my pages, I would like to be able to find text within those pages… I hope it is just broken, but I wonder how (if it is just borked) it could have possibly not been tested…

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

When a page with multiple notes is emailed, the notes in the email are not in the same order as on the page.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

@theambler: surely the search function is just broken?! if not, i can’t take it seriously at all: it doesn’t find text within a page, except if the same text also appears in a page title, in which case it does. that’s just silly – or broken.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

I’m another one who is not happy with the inability to code the list headings with colour or as links. We use our pages as Work Schedules and the colour scheme was very important to our presentation, and linking titles direct to pages was extremely useful.

I don’t see how anybody could have thought that limiting list titles to a static bold black would be an improvement.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

The search function

Am I right in thinking it only finds text in the title of a page, not the body or notes etc.

If so, this is a shame.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

The only other way around it as far as I can see is to use some sort of javascript to see if you’re viewing the public page

No scrap that, because it’s now not possible to include the SCRIPT or STYLE tags. This is completely breaking my pages. :(

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

@Jason:

Links are still there on pages that had links, but we’ve removed that option moving forward. It was almost never used (less than 1% of all pages had “links”). You can still make your own links between pages using HTML or Textile in a note or list, of course.

I understand that the option was rarely used, however it was still useful. The problem now is that if I want to link a publicly available page to another publicly available page, I need to include a link to the private/account-only copy, plus another one right next to it to the public copy. This is extremely confusing for users and does not make any sense at all in my opinion.

If the links option is not going to be included in this version, is it possible to at least include some logical way so that this double-linking to a private and public copy of the same page is not necessary. The only other way around it as far as I can see is to use some sort of javascript to see if you’re viewing the public page – but again, this is not a very convenient option for other Backpack users out there who may not be familiar with scripting, and are using this tool for its simplicity.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

ouch! where did the date stamps go on notes in a page!?

Yes, this is a must have.

Topic: The new Backpack is live!

I think the removing of the “links” maker is not getting real.

Now if I need to make a link to another backpack page, I need to make a new note, insert a link and drag & drop the note to the bottom of the page :(

I agree Jordan. I used this feature a lot to tie in groups of pages (eg., lists, help info, projects, etc), but now I need to manually add in those links. Bummer.

Also has anyone else noticed that the font in the buttons and textbox to enter a new page title is completely different to the rest of the page? Makes it all look a little unconsistent.

Topic: Can't create gallery / upload pictures

500 here too : MacOS + FF 2.0.x

Topic: Can't create gallery / upload pictures

sorry to say it but it doesn’t work for me. i get an 500 Internal Server Error

(OS10.4.10, FF2)