Discussion on Basecamp - Coloured to-dos based on due dates | Userscripts.org

Colouring "Done" Items, replied by markp

markp — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:56:58 +0000

Hi Alex,

A minor niggle, not really a bug, but on a project's "To-Do" tab, done items still get coloured, over-writing the "greyed-out" highlighting that Basecamp adds to these items.

It would be great if this script could be updated either to not colour done items, or (perhaps better) to show them in strike-through, rather than greyed out (as happens on the overview tab).

If you get a chance to do this it will make my favourite Basecamp script even better!

Mark

New release with a few requested fixes, replied by Alex Burkhardt

Alex Burkhardt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:48:27 +0000

@conankun: It´s a bit tricky but there might be a way to implement this filter. I´ll see what I can come up with.

New release with a few requested fixes, replied by CJ McKinney

CJ McKinney — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:13:53 +0000

Alex,

Love the script. However, it seems to be having an issue with April 2009. It does not work correctly for that month for some reason. I can't figure out why.

New release with a few requested fixes, replied by conankun

conankun — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:10:45 +0000

Hi Alex,

How can I modify it so that it will only color my to-does. I know I can filter it by showing only my to-does. But I was just wondering if it is possible for me to still view everyone to-does in a project, yet have only mine colored.
Eg.
A: [23/02/09] Do this (color this)
B: [23/02/09] Do that (don't color)
A: [25/02/09] Do whatever (color this)

Hendra

New release with a few requested fixes, replied by markp

markp — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:53:37 +0000

Hi Alex,

Excellent! Many thanks. Works well and makes the script much nicer to use.

Mark

New release with a few requested fixes, replied by Alex Burkhardt

Alex Burkhardt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:22:05 +0000

I just released a new version which should fix the problem with styling on completed to-dos (struck-out) on the dashboard. Also, I added the non-https Basecamp domains to make it work with all Basecamp plans. Let me know if it works for you.

Again, if you prefer the US date format (mm/dd/yy) you need to make the following changes:

Just open the script in a text editor through the edit button in the "Manage user scripts" window. Then change line 54 & 55 to the following:

dateDisplayed.setMonth(datum1[0] - 1);
dateDisplayed.setDate(datum1[1]);

Any feedback and questions are more than welcome.

Archived Comments, replied by markp

markp — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:53:58 +0000

Hi Chris and thanks for the suggestion. In fact I'd tried something like that myself already, but it doesn't really do the job, because you still have the problem on the dashboard page, to-dos are no longer coloured on each project's own overview page, and (a lesser problem) on each project's own to-do page the done to-dos are still coloured which seems not to be the ideal functionality.

I've no idea how these scripts work, so not sure if the problem is actually fixable, but ideally the script would detect if a bit of text with a date is struck through and if so then wouldn't apply the colouring.

I appreciate your help though!

Archived Comments, replied by Chris H.

Chris H. — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:12:02 +0000

MarkP, there is another workaround without modifying the actual script. Actually this can be built into the install of the script later by Alex if wanted. Simply go under Manager User Scripts and then under the "Excluded Pages" section, depending on the URL you are accessing the syntax is this:

http://*.projectpath.*/project/*

If you are using something other than projectpath in the URL, then you might need to change the portion labeled projectpath. Also when I am logged into basecamp in my project, my projects are listed as http://, not https://, so I actually had to modify the Included Pages to read "http://", removing the s from https. Im not sure if anyone else ran into this same problem. It was just a minor edit though.

Hope this helps.

Archived Comments, replied by markp

markp — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:09:37 +0000

I like this script very much, but it has one small problem and I wonder if it is fixable? When a task is marked as completed and should appear on the dashboard and Project Overview pages struck-through to indicate "done", the script over-rides the strike-through attribute and it is not then clear that the task is completed.

If it were possible somehow to detect that a to-do has a strike-through attribute set and not apply the colouring that would be a major improvement.

The only workaround is to remember to edit the to-do and remove the date, before marking it "done", which is a little inelegant!

I hope that Alex can help to make his script even better.

Archived Comments, replied by Alex Burkhardt

Alex Burkhardt — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:33:13 +0000

Cilantro: To make it work with the US date format (mm/dd/yy) you only need to change two lines in the script. Just open the script in a text editor through the edit button in the "Manage user scripts" window. Then change line 49 & 50 to the following:

dateDisplayed.setMonth(datum1[0] - 1);
dateDisplayed.setDate(datum1[1]);

Let me know if you have any questions or would like me to upload the amended script.

Archived Comments, replied by Cilantro

Cilantro — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:45:27 +0000

Request: Could you fix the date format for us Americans? There's no way I can get my team to do day/month/year.

Archived Comments, replied by Cilantro

Cilantro — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:44:01 +0000

Fairly simple. The allowed URLs are all https which is why it doesn't work for you. To fix it, right click the greasemonkey icon, click Manage user scripts. Then, choose Basecamp Colored todos on the left and then edit the "allowed urls" on the right. Remove the s in https. Then it will work for you.

Archived Comments, replied by sprinter4life

sprinter4life — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:54:18 +0000

Ive tried using this script and there is no color change when I add a date. I am using Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Was this created to be compatible with this version? Do you have any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:12 +0000

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