Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Looking for a BC integrated Invoice solution

They all suck (in one way or another)... we’re rolling our own.

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Subprojects, milestones, and dated to-dos

You can assign a todo list to a milestone….

What’s the different between a milestone and a to-do? I view a milestone as a big deliverable – report due March 15, and to-dos as the little things that get you there – write chapter 1, research table, etc. But why can’t you date date and organize to-dos like milestones?

Correct. You don’t need to date todo’s, they can be tied to a milestone which has a date, you can organise their priority by order.

Topic: Feature Requests / Reply To email addresses on messages

I’d much prefer if the reply was automatically read in by basecamp and then added as a reply to whatever thread/item the original was about.

Topic: Miscellaneous / What software do you use to send estimates/invoices?

Bringing this post back up from the grave.

I signed up to Blinksale, but their invoices do not render correctly in Outlook 2007 – I know outlook rendering engine (Word) is crap, but that is beside the point. I can’t have my invoices looking like total crap.. so It was unusable to me. I was really impressed with the simplicity of Blinksale however, is it worthwhile checking out freshbooks or something else?

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / How do they connect together ?

Sadly, there is very little that links them all together at this stage. Eg you can import your contacts into highrise from basecamp, but they are not “linked”... 37S is pushing in this direction however (from what I gather of their posts around here).

Topic: Feature Requests / To-Do lists vs Highrise Tasks...

A task manager must have the ability to assign priorities and deadlines. Simple.

hmmm… create tasklist.. and assign it to a milestone with a due date… set priorities by dragging and dropping (eg items at the top are highest priority).

There is your priorities and deadlines.

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Meetings & Permissions

I usually create a message with information about the meeting, and link it to a milestone.

I always give clients full control to do everything. But they cannot assign Todo’s to you (which is an issue imo). I hope 37S will revisit this shortly.

Topic: Feature Requests / Calendar widget selection when creating milestones

Erm, the dropdowns were replaced with a calander a few weeks ago?

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Buttons using [ ] brackets

yes… it would wouldn’t it 37S…. :D

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / How can external company staff assign to-dos to internal staff?

Remember this a collaboration tool… and in our case, often that means collaborating with other companies, and having them assign stuff for us to do.

I posted about this issue in another thread recently. But basically our web development team and a separate web design team were collaborating on the one project, and it was frustrating that the web design guys could not assign things that we needed to do. I can understand the reasons why you would not want people assigning things for you in certain situations, hence the need to make it optional.

Topic: Feature Requests / Assign To-Do's To All

Yeah it needs to be optional.. and I have just massively hit this issue today..

We are collaborating with another company on a project, and they cannot assign things for us to do….. :/ Anyone else have another workaround that doesn’t involve creating a dummy account?

Topic: System Announcements / NEW FEATURE: Milestone calendar date picker (UPDATED)

+1 on sat and sun should be together, but also understand majority unfortunately rules.

Topic: System Announcements / Read/Unread improved in messages list view

“How about reading in my cookies and updating the database the first time I log in?

That probably would have worked.”

It never used cookies.

Topic: Feature Requests / Project Name in Milestone - Calendar

an ENOURMOUS PLUS ONE to this… I’m having to manually prefix milestone names with project names.

Topic: System Announcements / NEW FEATURE: Milestone calendar date picker (UPDATED)

+1 to the above 2 posts…

Topic: Feature Requests / Formatting Guide, please come back!

Would be good if we could get an official word here…

Topic: System Announcements / Read/Unread improved in messages list view

awesome.. thanks.

Topic: Feature Requests / 'List View' message ordering

Seeing as the system used to display wether there are new comments or not is a bit.. well flaky. Could the order of the messages be in order of last activity? Somewhat like it is on a real forum? The one with the most recent comments are placed at the top.

Topic: Miscellaneous / Very slow to use

I’m in Sydney Australia, absolutely no speed problems here.. Firebug tells me the dashboard page takes ~187ms to load! (after the 250ms of latency for the request to be received). So total time to load a page is < 400ms! Of course with servers in Australia that time could be halved :P

Topic: Feature Requests / Who's talking in this thread...

This is handy having having the contact details for everyone who are particpating in the thread. However it only lists, one phone number for example (I think it defaults to the office number). I often find myself wanting to ring someone on their mobile, I then have to goto the people page, and then find where they are..

So it would be good to be able to get all their contact details in that right hand pane. Maybe if you hover over their name a little popup comes up with the rest of their info so as not to clutter things up.

Topic: Feature Requests / Love the new dashboard layout, can we have it in Overview too?

Yep looks good as well!

Topic: Feature Requests / Formatting Guide, please come back!

+1..

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Login from my own page not working

I just checked this as well.. and it’s not working for us either. I have a feeling its to do with it now forcing to use the SSL login…

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Tip needed - domain forwarding

I think the only solution is to use ‘domain masking’ using frames.

Topic: Tips & Tricks / Hide the "video demo" proposal in the Overview

Didko, I am 98% sure this video only shows up for you, and not your clients.