Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

If a todo is time sensitive, seems better to add it to a calendar – not necessarily in basecamp.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

ashant – forum participants like you and I. That’s why they ask for donations, because they too are donating their own time and resources.

If that’s the case, who does the fees we pay go to?

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Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

(Jeff Foster) to all: What is the progress? – we’re all watching.

Asshat polluted the forum, film at 11.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

ashant – forum participants like you and I. That’s why they ask for donations, because they too are donating their own time and resources.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

Agreed. I am a brand new user… I’ve essentially been building my business “with” basecamp, which is great so far however obviously missing a significant PM piece. Moving forward in BaseCamp is dependent on this PM piece being integrated… any updates would be great!!

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ashant: you do realize the people developing this are NOT from 37signals, right?

to all: What is the progress? – we’re all watching.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

Hi all.
I am working on a very basic Gantt interactive editor in Silverlight (www.gganttic.com)
The key word is interactive – meaning one can drag and drop things around.

I am considering integrating with BC, and need your collective advice.

Presently it takes tasks from and saves to Google Spreadsheets.
It is currently a very Alpha state, and I don’t rush it because Silverlight 2.0 is still itself in beta.
I am currently reviewing BC’s API.

If todo items had start / due dates they would easily become tasks. But it does not nor we know when and if it will.
What can we do instead with the existing features?
- disregard todos and only place milestones as milestones
- assume that milestones are tasks in a waterfall model – one milestone starts when the previous one ends.
- assume milestones as a group tasks (though gganttic will not have group tasks in 1.0 version) covering period from previous milestone and spread todos equally over the period
- use auxiliary means to store task information, like attached spreadsheet or separate account on Google Spreadsheets? (I would hate to do this- too complex and both BC and gGanttic is all about simplicity)

Please share your thougths here or on gganttic.com site or email me to basecamp_integration at gganttic and obviously dot com

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is money the issue this project isn’t moving forward? i think with the kind of response this post is triggering, many of us can provide ‘donations’ to move this along. Also – we have a full development staff, so if you’re limited on resources, maybe we can help?

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

I am vastly relieved that someone is working on a solution such as this. We’ve twisted turned and bent Basecamp as far as we can go in order to use it for actual “Project Management”. I have a team using it extensively and we experience all of the above issues; a ToDo without a timeline just filters down into obliviion once you add many over the life cycle of numerous projects. Plus, then team members have absolutely no idea what the dependencies are in the real world and projects can fall off the map in terms of progress as the are not in synch.

• Dependencies (desperately)
• ToDos associated with due dates
• A way to filter those to a “today” view to be able to see what the Priority of the To Do is
• Reporting features!!! A major missing piece of basecamp in my opinion
• Private milestones (hate that the client can see all milestones, this makes it pretty limited)

What’s the real world timeline on this API? I am shopping for new options today, as we are outgrowing what we can do with Basecamp currently.

Thanks.

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Count me in as a vote to put due dates on Todos….

I run two different teams in India…. I find that if I have to create Milestones for every time I want to set a due date they just get confused.

To me it would be so simple.

Project – Wordpress PPC Sites
Milestone – XYZ.com – Due Sept 30th
Tasks – Create Home page – Due Sept 5th
Tasks – Create Message Board – Due Sept 7th
Tasks – Create sub pages – Due Sept 25th

Having the ability to set a due date on Todo lists would save me tons of time.

heyday

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

Man, I love the sounds of this add-on. I just can’t for the life of me understand why 37S hasn’t been working on some of this functionality.

I’m very interested.

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+1

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Can I just add my vote for due dates on Todos? At least make it optional?

Topic: Ability to Link Messages and To Dos

I know there’s a way around it, but the ability to link to messages or show images, on an application level would be a huge help!

Topic: Ability to Link Messages and To Dos

For creating links within To-Do Lists use;

Never had any issues with it.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

Being a professional project manager I would love to see BC include the ability to create dependancies between tasks, include durations and level of effort, and show it in a calendar or gantt chart. However, sometimes that will be overkill for the projects we use Basecamp for. Will the system allow you to choose either complex or simple tasks? What happens if I want to track due date and level of effort but not dependencies?

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I am wondering how the task list itself will look once a due date is arrived. Will I be able to look at my simple list and see all dates or will I have to go to the the gant chart (which from the screenshot is not helpful) and message (which requiers yet more drill down to find information related to a todo than I want to have to do). Look at the way central desktop handles it. Nice and clean. Owner, task and due date all on one line.

I’m also interested in any news on the status of this for GA

Topic: Ability to Link Messages and To Dos

I know that at one point this stuff worked, I understand that now html tags are being filtered. I tried to use the

"link":http://www.google.ca

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

Hey Neil, I just read your thread and was wondering how things are going with the project.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

Just a quick follow-up. We’ve been adding dates manually to the beginning of the title for our todo items, and it has been working quite well. I still would love to have a real ‘due’ date, but everyone on our team is making a habit of watching for the upcoming items and handling them on time.

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Don’t worry, I didn’t think that at all. I was just wondering if you’ve had some experience that has put you off the idea of a more complete management system. I’m no evangelist for Gantt (it’s just a graph after all) or for any particular method (critical path, critical chain… etc.) The trick is to put in place a Basecamp-sympathetic mechanism that works as a full-featured task management system for those that choose it but also scales easily for projects from simple to complex.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

No I haven’t really changed my mind and I didn’t mean any offense so please don’t take any. I guess what I am looking for is a task management system and I think of Gantt as covering more than that (tracking resource availability, etc) which is more than I personally need. I have never really used Gantt charts however so perhaps I have misconceived them as adding a level of complexity that is not really there.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

mckinneylaw – thanks, but have you changed your mind? :-)

+1. The lack of any true task management system in Basecamp is a glaring defect.

The word “Gantt” just gets caught in the back of my throat and hangs there.

I know, many people have this reaction – but just like any graph, it depends both on how it’s presented and interpreted. I just think of everything behind “today” as a measurement and everything in front of “today” as an estimate. There may be no estimates, then the chart just ends with “today” and everything is measurement. It’s also a compact way of packaging up a whole lot of information and providing a visually intuitive way of navigating through a project. (It’s quite a good bit of design actually – not as good as Minard’s map of Napoleon’s march into Russia, but good for a general purpose.)

rwsllc – the way I see this working is that it shouldn’t get in the way. Just by entering a To-Do item in a list you’ll automatically get a separate message thread associated with every item. If you then choose to add only a due-date, the chart will show just the date the item was added, it’s due-date and actual completion date. Even if you choose not to specify any dates at all other than entering the task and checking it off when it’s done, just spanning those dates on a calendar along with other tasks is uncannily provocative. If instead of due-dates you want to provide specific task dependencies and time estimates, then a whole different analysis kicks in involving resources and critical chains… however complicated you need to be, the representation is as simple as possible.

Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

You must mean Neil’s project <g>.