Topic: Feature Requests / Tag cloud in the sidebar?

Thanks. That will do the job.

Topic: Feature Requests / Tag cloud in the sidebar?

It’s easy to tag pages, but I don’t feel like it’s easy to use the tags. Wouldn’t a tag cloud (or at least a simple list of tags) in the sidebar be useful? I’d love it if I could click on a tag in the sidebar and the list of pages in the sidebar were replaced by the list of pages for that tag.

Thanks,
Ben

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / This page is shared (Change) link wrapping

Lazlo, you’re completely right. “This page is shared (Change)” won’t fit, but “This page is private (Change) will. I used Firebug to try different widths for that span and I got it to work if I increased the width from 185px to 194px.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / This page is shared (Change) link wrapping

Ryan, just to let you know, I see the problem on some pages, but not on others, so it might be hard for you to replicate. I can’t see any reason why it’s working on some pages and not others. I can give you page IDs if necessary.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / This page is shared (Change) link wrapping

This is just a small issue, but the “This page is shared (Change)” link is wrapping awkwardly. It does this in Firefox 3 and IE6 on Windows. Safari for Windows seems to work fine.

I feel like this is new, because I would have noticed it before.

Thanks,
Ben

Topic: Feature Requests / Edit list title immediately when adding a list

When I add a list to a page, Backpack wants me to immediately start adding list items, but I always feel that the first thing I want to do is to edit the title of the list. Does the way Backpack works make sense to anyone? It doesn’t seem like I would ever want to just leave the title as “List”.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Journal on a Solo account

I’m seeing the same thing. I can’t edit yesterday’s journal entries.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Journal on a Solo account

All of a sudden I can edit the entries. It looks like someone has fixed this.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Journal on a Solo account

I have a Solo account and the new journal feature doesn’t seem to work as shown in the demo video. There’s no status feature (which I understand might make sense for a single user account) and I can’t edit or delete my journal entries. I’d like to enter journal entries to keep track of what I do over the week and I’d definitely like to be able to edit them. Is this a bug or by design?

Topic: Miscellaneous / High user, low usage account?

I could share pages, but I don’t think I can share a calendar. I could give them the iCal address, but most of these guys are older technophobes, so I don’t think iCal is going to mean much to them. It would also be nice to be able to set up reminders for everyone about upcoming games.

Anyway, I know that the current accounts make a lot of sense. I was just trying to make the point that there are some low usage scenarios where the new multiuser Backpack could be tremendously useful for a large number of users.

Topic: Miscellaneous / High user, low usage account?

I play for a tennis team that is part of a league. I’d love to get the team using Backpack to keep track of when and where our matches are and post some simple pages with rules, etc. It would be really low usage, but would be incredibly useful. The problem is that there are 12 people on our team, so the lowest price plan would be the Plus $49/month. That’s going to be a hard sell to the team.

I guess I’m basically saying that a large number of users doesn’t necessarily equate to a high usage, high cost plan. Would you guys consider something like a high user, 10 page, 100MB, shared calendar, message board plan at a lower cost?

Maybe that’s asking too much, but I guess my point is that the team site would get used a LOT less than my personal Solo plan.

Thanks,
Ben

Topic: Backpack API / New HTTP code when adding a reminder

/users.xml doesn’t seem to work. Is it because I’m on a Solo account? I was expecting to see just one user (me) along with the ID.

Topic: Backpack API / New HTTP code when adding a reminder

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the info.

In my Firefox extension, I’d like to allow reminders to be added for multiple users. To do that I need to be able to get a list of users and corresponding IDs for the account. It doesn’t seem like there is an API call for this.

Topic: Backpack API / New HTTP code when adding a reminder

When I add a reminder I’m now getting a 201 code with an XML response containing the newly created reminder. I understand why the 201 is being returned, but am I right in thinking that I used to get a 200 code returned? My code is treating anything but a 200 as an error.

I noticed that API for the reminders uses a new format without the /ws/ in the path and with an .xml extension. Are the other API methods going to be changed in the same way?

Finally, I noticed that reminders can be added for a list of users. To make use of this, it seems like we need an API call to get the list of users with their corresponding IDs. Something like GET /#{token}/users.xml

Topic: Backpack API / Backpack API Doesn't Return Start Page

It looks like this has been (kind of) fixed. The homepage is now at the bottom of the list. It’s not in it’s correct position based on the ordering by page name, but at least it’s there now.

Topic: Backpack API / Get pages for a tag

The API documentation specifies that /ws/tags/select/#{id} will return the pages for a tag ID. It doesn’t seem to work. I get a completely blank response.

It would also be great if I could pass in the tag name instead of the ID, as it’s impossible to get the ID for a given tag name (e.g. /ws/tags/select/work). If this isn’t possible, then it would be nice if I could get the list of tags for an account with something like /ws/tags/all.

Thanks,
Ben

Topic: Backpack API / Backpack API Doesn't Return Start Page

You’re right!

I’ve been asking for a while if there’s a way I can determine the Home/start page from the list. Maybe there’s another way of accessing this page now.

Topic: Backpack API / New Backpack API?

Does anyone know if the Backpack API has been updated based on the Backpack changes?

The Backpack API documentation (http://developer.37signals.com/backpack/) doesn’t seem to have changes.

Ben

Topic: Backpack Calendar / iCal Time Zone Issue

I’ve also seen this problem when subscribing to my Backpack calendar in Google Calendar. The 4 hour difference makes all the times on my appointments wrong. I was wondering if this was a Backpack or a Google issue, but this seems to indicate that it’s a Backpack issue.

Topic: Backpack Calendar / Reminders on calendar events

As I use the calendar more and more (I love it btw), I’m getting frustrated with the fact that I can’t set reminders for calendar events (apart from the restrictive 30 minute option).

If I have a doctors appointment, then I want that appointment on the calendar (so that I don’t schedule something else for that time) and I also want to be reminded at some period of time before the appointment (which depends on how far I have to travel).

I’m finding that I’m adding appointments to both the calendar and the reminders, which gets a little frustrating, especially when the appointment changes and I have to change it in 2 places.

There’s been talk before of integrating the reminders and calendar. I understand some of the problems with this. Maybe all we need is the ability to change the 30 minute option to something else.

Thanks,
Ben

Topic: Backpack API / Link to create a new page

In my Firefox extension, I used to have a link to create a new Backpack page that pointed to http://username.backpackit.com/pages/new. That link no longer works. In the Backpack UI, it looks like the button to add a new page works via javascript. Is there a new URL that I can point to to create a new page?

I guess my extension could create the new page and then navigate to it, but I’d prefer the simple option of a link.

Thanks,
Ben

Topic: Backpack API / Problems withthe OpenID feature

Try clicking logout in Backpack. Then right click my extension and click Refresh Pages. It shouldn’t work.

Or are you already using the new API key given to you after you switched to OpenID?

Topic: Backpack API / Problems withthe OpenID feature

DHH sent me a support email and it seems that when a user switches to OpenID, they get a new API key. Once I switched to the new API key, everything works fine.

Topic: Backpack API / Problems withthe OpenID feature

It’s that I can’t pull the list of pages using the API without the user being logged in to Backpack. This isn’t the case when the user is using regular logins (not OpenID).

Let me give you another example. If I wanted to write a Windows (or Mac) program that pulls the list of pages using the API, it wouldn’t work, because the web service URL I’m calling wants the user to be logged in via OpenID.

Ben

Topic: Backpack API / Problems withthe OpenID feature

I see that the OpenID feature has been added. I love the feature, but it seems to create a problem with the API.

The API will now only work if the user is actually logged into Backpack with their OpenID credentials. Now, if a user installs my Firefox extension (http://www.millssoftware.com/firefox/index.htm) and plugs in their username and API key, the web service won’t return results until the user actually logs in to their Backpack account with their OpenID credentials. Am I missing something? It seems that the API should work just with the username and API key.

Thanks,
Ben