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Why not to make Basecamp even better?

- A percentage of finished/unfinished tasks would be very great!

- A better and most beautiful calendar.

- A .ZIP export of a project.

- A visual editor for Writeboards.

- Subfolders in the Files.

- Highrise + Basecamp integration, please!

;-)

I don’t really understand how this is different from the current system of sharing a page with another user. Is it that I can allow other users access to certain pages when they don’t have their own Backpack account? I must admit that this would be a useful feature as I’ve wanted to share information with people who are unwilling to sign up for a Backpack account and I don’t want to make the page public.

I currently use the Backpack API . Will you be publishing the API changes before the next version is released?

Great feature! We’ve been hoping for this for sometime. We use backpack as a company “wiki” with each team member having their own account. This will make sharing new content much easier!

Will the OpenBar still work as well?

I just spent the last 10 minutes at http://www.backpackit.com trying to find out how much Backpack costs, still can’t find a price. Do I really have to sign up for an account just to see if the price is worthwhile? Or am I missing something?

Will there be any form of versioning to go along with this update as a safeguard against accidental deletions, etc? If so it seems like this could become a much more user-friendly option in many situations where wikis would otherwise have been implemented.

Herbert Kornfeld! Nice one Sam :)

Looks interesting. This could get me to upgrade my free account in order to share pages with my SO. (Though the thought of a page where she could add to-do items fills me with modest dread….)

Oh, slick. I love Backpack, much of my life lives in it. Can’t wait to see what else you guys have cooked up.

Hip hip hoooray!

The absence of this is what ultimately led me to downgrade my Backpack account.

For smaller projects that don’t require Basecamp this is fantastic.

I actually said ‘Yes!’ outloud to myself when I saw this. I’ve got a medium priced plan largely for the SSL and am sometimes reluctant to share certain things with my wife as her account doesn’t. Sounds like this will address that!

Any post with tha H-Dog Herbert Kornfield’s pic in it gets a thumbs up from me.

How will a calendar work with multi users? Will the calendar API get an update (still missing a lot of important features if you want to build a sync tool)

Jason,

Thank you so very much. this is exactly what I am looking for to share information with my wife. I’ve been racking my brain for a month now looking at various options, network drives and wikis, but this is what I wanted all along! I’m still a little scared of putting private info on Backpack, even on the SSL versions, but perhaps I should work around that.

Count me in as an old paying customer coming back! Matt

Nice features!

Very cool. Will there be any sort of versioning, to see who made which changes? If so, will it happen at the page level? The list/note level?

Yeah! We’ve been using Backpack this way for over a year, but we’ve had to kluge it together…this sounds like it will be a much better solution! For a few dollars a month, we’ve created a great structure for sharing operational checklists. This will make it even easier!

Thanks!

Dear Jason,

Regarding this comment you did on the forum last July :

Sharing a single login is not permitted by the Terms of Service. We’ve run into situations where someone shared a login and then someone else cancelled their account. Your login is yours and yours alone. It should not be shared with anyone else—even a spouse or close friend. Backpack is currently a single-user product. If you need to share pages please use the sharing feature. Thanks.

Will you implement some nice restore from trash feature as well ? Regards

I find that large pages get a little hard to manage. There’s no good way to refactor large pages beyond dragging and dropping which is extremely tedious once the page gets much larger than one screen.

I also wish you could do wiki-style linking.

This is really fantastic. I’ve needed proper multi-user support since I signed up for a paid account over two years ago.

I can’t wait to give this a spin!

This sounds great.

When can we expect this to be introduced?

These features are exactly what I have been waiting for for my team. I prefer the flexible layout of Backpack over Basecamp for managing things that are more document oriented, like requirements documents, etc.

My question, and maybe this is a good question for the “Ask 37 signals” blog, is whether these more business oriented features are being added b/c it was difficult to monetize an application that was specifically consumer targeted? Will normal consumers just not pay the $5-$10 a month, but corporations clearly will?

I’m really looking forward to this stuff

Sounds great. What’s the time frame for this upgrade?

Is this feature active? Been looking for it on my backpack account and don’t see it.