it would be great to be able to select a group of projects and display their associated milestones – colour coded in some way to differentiate – i currently do this by exporting the icalendar details into a third party calender application but this is timeconsuming

I also use the company function to differentiate between my teams individual projects which works well and if a view a company level could be delivered that would help

also extending the timescale to last milestone date would be useful

I would also love to see if a Message or To-Do list is associated with a Milestone, which Milestone they are associated with.

thos.

We’re going to be completely rethinking the Milestones section later this year. Stay tuned.

That is cool Jason. A small detail to consider when you’re redesigning it:

It would be sweet if when you click on a milestone from the dashboard or other overview it would anchor to that milestone. Currently when you click on a milestone it just takes you to the milestone page for that project. Which is great unless you have many milestones. I find myself searching the page for the name I just looked at several times a day.

It is really only a problem because we are (mis) using a basecamp project for simple Trouble Ticketing and end up with several milestones. It is great because all of our IT work is in one place with our other projects. I can imagine others run into a similar problem.

Thanks for your feedback trotzke.

I’ve been thinking about milestones too …

how about each milestone getting its own page – summarising all related messages and to do lists (with the ability to add messages and to do items from the milestone page itself)?

the idea being that a milestone is often a mini-project all of itself (can’t start on phase 3 till phase 2 is done and dusted) – so a single at a glance view would be useful.

Baz.

I’m managing a team developing some products with somewhat hairy timelines. I know you’re trying to keep it simple but having just a little more functionality in the milestones area would be REALLY helpful, one feature in particular…

I’m not trying to turn this into a nitty-gritty planning calendar, but being able to place spans of days on there would be very helpful, instead of single day milestones. I have developers off at conferences, off-site training, vacation, etc. and being able to put those spans on there would help visualize the workable time better.

Thanks llh

One thing for me would be adding the name of the project at the end of the milstone in the dashboard. That way when looking at the dashboard, you also see the project thats associated with the milestone. To get around this, we need to put a “-(project name)” when making milestones. Would be good if this was done automatically. Thanks

Adrian,

I agree. We have the same set of milestones in each project and now have 40+ live projects. The milestone calender just shows identical milestones and we have to mouse over to see which project they are for.

Richard