Topic: Feature Requests / What about a tool for migrating data from two accounts to a new one???

Eh, that wouldn’t be so hard to work around. Just only allow projects to be transfered from paid accounts. I think that covers 99% of the legitimate use cases.

+1 for this feature, in any event. I spent a few hours the other day manually migrating a project between accounts and it was really tedious. For that project, the use case was a project that started out as a consultant relationship, and eventually bloomed into me starting a new LLC with the “clients”. So now we have a new account for our company, so the rest of the people can access all the account-holder features (chat transcripts, time tracking, etc.).

Topic: Campfire / Transcripts?

I have the same problems as Jody and Jon N.

• none of the people in my Basecamp project can login at campfirenow.com (as I think you’re suggesting they should) without me explicitly inviting them on the “Members” tab of Campfire;
• when clients go to the “Chat” tab, they’re logged in as guests without transcripts or search. They’re asked to enter their full name, even though Basecamp already knows it.

The lack of “history” and transcripts is kind of the killer. We’re definitely not all in there all the time, so it’s nice to be able to pop in and have a short discussion that others can catch up on later. I’m also using Tinder to post svn commit messages. But since no one can see the history but me, it doesn’t work like it should.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Broken File Links?

I have the same problem as johnb two posts up. I’m on Firefox 2 on Mac. When I right-click and hit save, the file downloads—but its filename is something along the lines of “F6825543.htm”. It should have been a jpg.

Checking out the headers… if I had to guess: is it because you’re sending “Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8” along with the 302 reply to GET /projects/12345/files/download/6825543? On that response, you send me to s3 with the 302 and a Location header, but you also sent that Content-Type and a Content-Length. That doesn’t sound right. You should just be sending me a 302 and a Location, and you should leave it up to Amazon to give me the content headers.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / OpenID and RSS Feeds

Nick, check out this thread for help.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / OpenID doesn't work.

The problem might be that Basecamp doesn’t seem to want to follow the delegate info in your meta tags. You have to specify the exact endpoint. Or at least, that’s the problem I had.

I got around this by setting up mod_rewrite to point my domain root at the phpMyId endpoint.

Topic: Basecamp API / How to use the API with the new OpenID logins

Ha, I know, that’s what I was just saying. I just managed to read it and then still not immediately realize why my subversion hooks and capistrano deploy recipe had stopped posting to basecamp :) So I thought I’d post a reminder for everybody.

On that note—it would be really fantastic if we could either set our own passwords or do shared-key authentication (like ssh) for the API. I don’t really like storing my password in plaintext on disk, so I have my scripts prompt me for it using the Termios gem (so it won’t show up on screen, either). But now that my API password is 20 digits of hex, it’s pretty tough to keep doing that.

Topic: Basecamp API / How to use the API with the new OpenID logins

I just wanted to post this in case it tripped up anybody else: if you enable OpenID access for your account, Basecamp generates a new username/password pair to use for API access. You can find this under ‘My Info’ (the same place where you turned on OpenID support).