Topic: Due dates for To-Dos

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

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

Asshat polluted the forum, film at 11.

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

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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.

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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?

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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

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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?

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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

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

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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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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.

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You must mean Neil’s project <g>.

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Yeah actually just a little built in functionality that biulds in what the Greasemonkey script does and perhaps one that changes the color or otherwise indicates when a To-Do item is the “next action” in a given list would be all that I am looking for. The word “Gantt” just gets caught in the back of my throat and hangs there. But your project looks great for those that are looking for a traditional full-featured Gantt system. Good luck with it.

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• rwsllc : It’s not auto-notification, but there is a grease monkey script that colors to-dos in alert colors when they near the date and go red when passed. You can find it and others here: UserScripts”:http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=basecamp
  It seems to me that if a script can know when it’s close to due that an expert can make it send a msg.

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I too would like to be able to set due dates on individual todo list items. If milestones could be grouped into some kind of sub-project or something, then I would definitely be using them instead of individual items on todo lists.

Neil, your add-on service looks useful, but I’d settle for the simple addition of a date or reminder field on todo items.

Earle – I also have taken to putting the date in the title. I suppose it works well enough for now. I think once our team grows, we’re going to have problems if we don’t get auto-notifications on due dates for todo items, though.

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Oh that looks really nice. Any ETA on this add-on?

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lakin, until a better solution comes along, I enter todo due dates in the description as “[5/16/08] JMW to deliver the April Unit Sales Report to District HQ.” so it stands alone.

Putting the date in that format (& inside the brackets) works with a grease monkey script color the description when it gets close to being due.
Putting who does what to whom by when clears it up on my milestone reports that do not use the assigned to field.

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It seems, from a non-developer perspective, that adding Due dates to To-Do’s would be fairly simple if you simply tweak the time entry screen on each To-do. Can a developer elaborate further?