Comments on: Time tracking with categories, Basecamp style

By: Betty Hardin

Betty Hardin — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:12:16 +0000

In response to Frank – Basecamp recently released an update that DOES provide the abiilty to export the entire time tracking table. Just click on the TIME tab on the main page.

By: Simon R Jones

Simon R Jones — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:53:39 +0000

Frank – I don’t believe so. The global data export function only exports messages and comments ( https://your-basecamp-url/global/xml_dump )

We just run time repotrs on each project and tend to analyse these manually at present.

It would be nice if Basecamp made an API available so users could interrogate data in the way they wished to. Would certainly make the application more “Web 2.0″

Simon

By: Frank Cowell

Frank Cowell — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:12:46 +0000

HI there!

Is there a way to export to a CSV for ALL time tracking in Base Camp? Let’s say we have 15 clients each month (we work with them each month on retainer) and I want to get one export – is this possible? Otherwise I have to go in to each ‘project’ and export to csv and then copy/paste all of them together in Excel.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

-Frank

By: Simon R Jones

Simon R Jones — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:28:56 +0000

yep – we are indeed using the To Do list items as categories.

I wanted a system to make it easy to add time to a set category and not have to worry about mispelling anything. This keeps it easier to do quick reports in Excel.

We still use To Do lists for individual items we need to get done (and track milestones), but personally I’m not too worried about having each and every task detailed in the time tracking. I just want to see the bigger picture.

Remember Basecamp is kept intentionally simple. This means people find methods to do things their way – this is just one example of that.

By: Alexandre Simard

Alexandre Simard — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:10:00 +0000

Looks good! I do not have access to the Time Tracking feature, so I want to thank you for taking the time to give me sneak peak inside of it.

Just one comment, though. Aren’t you using To-Do Items as Categories? You’re kind of perverting the model here, as the acual task is now in a Note, and probably duplicated from another To-Do item. Does BaseCamp export the To-Do Titles too? I would use these as categories, I think.