Topic: Miscellaneous / IE support

That would be instant death for any business related web product, most businesses are Microsoft-centric no?

Topic: Feature Requests / Timetracking interface is neglected

I was thinking about #4.

If someone built an HTML page using the Basecamp API, or if 37signals added it to the Time tab (please!) you could add it your OS X Dashboard using the Web Clip widget – bingo – instant Sundial replacement!

Topic: Feature Requests / Timetracking interface is neglected

This tab needs some more love.

1. When you edit a report, the people dropdown resets – couldn’t it remember who was previously selected?

2. If there were ‘Previous day’ and ‘Next day’ buttons for the current report (or previous/next week or whatever time period was currently selected) that would also save a lot of time

3. Ability to sort reports by date/project/hours/description would be nice

4. Oh, and what about a page from which you could add time to any project/to-do item. Kind of like an HTML version of the Sundial widget (which no longer works for us for some reason). It takes a lot of time navigating between projects if you need to add an hour or two to several at once :)

That’s all. Thanks.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / External Basecamp Login

Using AS3…

var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
vars.user_name = _usernameField.text;
vars.password = _passwordField.text;

var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("https://basecamp.clientsection.com/login/authenticate");
urlRequest.data = vars;
urlRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;

navigateToURL(urlRequest);

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Replacing User?

Erm, not that I know of.

Topic: Tips & Tricks / 48 hour email notification, can it be reset?

Nope.

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Separating Client & Subvendor

If they need to be that separate you just have to create 2 projects.

Not sure why you would want them together if they can’t see/communicate with each other?

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Bookmarklet to show your time logged today

Update: Works fine in Safari and Firefox

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Bookmarklet to show your time logged today

Save this as a bookmark, making sure to update “yourbasecampurl” and “yourid” accordingly…

javascript:var%20t=new%20Date();t.setMonth(t.getMonth());var%20m=t.getMonth()+1+'';
var%20y=t.getFullYear()+'';var%20d=t.getDate()+'';if(m.length==1)m='0'+m;if(d.length==1)d='0'+d;
location.href='http://yourbasecampurl.com/time/report/yourid/'+y+m+d;>

You can work out your id by generating a time report for yourself and looking for the number after ”/report/” in the url. It looks to be 6 or 7 digits long normally…

Topic: Tips & Tricks / I seem to be able to e-mail replies to message notifications into Basecamp

Yes

Topic: Feature Requests / Shortcuts for today/this week/last week time reports?

Hello, there are some reports that I make manually at the end of every day, it would be sweet to have shortcuts for them…

Mainly:

‘Show my time for today’

But also:

‘Show my time for this week’
‘Show my time for last week’

Usually it gets to the end of the day and I need to check if I’ve logged enough hours. Same thing at the end of a week.

I guess you could also be sneaky and write some kind of Greasemonkey or similar script to the same effect?

Cheers.

Topic: Feature Requests / Private Comments in Public Threads

This sounds kinda dangerous to me, what if you clicked the wrong button and your client saw your “He’s being a stubborn ** about this one, can we work out a way to appease him” type message… :)

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Mass Email to All Users In All Projects

Save the source of your People page as html and use some kind of script to harvest the emails out of it, and put them in an email.

Topic: Feature Requests / Email "LATEST PRODUCT UPDATES" not wanted

Big up for the addition of the new reply via email feature, sweet!

But yeah, we need an option to turn off the updates summary. Too much noise!

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Sundial Widget - 'unknown error' problem

No problem Jason, I was wondering if anyone else had this problem?

The people who make Sundial are ignoring my attempts to contact them! :(

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Sundial Widget - 'unknown error' problem

Hi peeps,

We keep getting an ‘unknown error’ in the widget, any ideas how to fix this?

Cheers.

Topic: Feature Requests / Let us dismiss system announcements, please!

D’oh, thanks!

Topic: Feature Requests / Shortcuts to 'My time this week' and 'My time last week' in the time tab?

Hey peeps,

I frequently have to generate a custom report to list my time for the current or previous week, to check I’ve logged enough time.

Any ideas how I could create automatic links to these reports? (I wonder if a Greasemonkey script could work)

Cheers,

James

Topic: Feature Requests / Let us dismiss system announcements, please!

Hello,

It’s great to know that we can get a $10 discount on upgrading, but we already have maxed out our account… please could we have a way to dismiss system announcements? It’s been there for agggessssssss.

Cheers and keep up the good work,

James

Topic: Feature Requests / Schedual the "release" of Messages

Interest idea but probably only useful to only a handful of people. Thus unlikely to be added anytime soon. You could probably do this with the Basecamp API though…. hmm

Topic: System Announcements / Downtime

We’re getting 502 errors also, not all the time, but fairly often.

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Adding a client to multiple projects

Delegate the task to someone junior to you!

Topic: Feature Requests / Email address for a project?

We also have hit a brick wall in terms of clients in the US who travel, and use Blackberrys. They do not want to use Basecamp!!! (Sadly).

It seems that Blackberrys (or crackberrys as I have heard them called) are quite a big thing in the States?

Topic: Tips & Tricks / BaseCamp Tip: [UPDATE] tag

I think it would be just swell if some of the above words were include natively in Basecamp.

I could see myself using [QUOTE], [APPROVED], [ON HOLD], [COMPLETED] etc very often :)

Topic: Miscellaneous / Disable Email Notification...

You can’t disable it only for yourself, but there is a hack you could try – just put a fake or non existant email address instead of your real one. Bingo – no more notifications!

Only downside is that anyone clicking your email address in your contact details is going to be a wee bit dissapointed when they don’t get a replay ;-)

Otherwise you need to set up a custom mail filter that automatically puts any notifications from Basecamp in a folder, and marks them as read at the same time.