Import Basecamp XML

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avatar rs Jul 10. 2006. 2:00 am #1
I'm surprised no one has requested this feature yet: Basecamp projects can be exported as one big XML file. It would be fantastic for current Basecamp users to be able to import our XML file into activCollab.

Any chance of this happening?
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Jul 10. 2006. 2:15 am #2
Maybe when we have feature complete version. First beta or something like that.
avatar rs Jul 10. 2006. 2:33 am #3
Very cool. Look forward to it. What are the possibilities for exporting data from activeCollab at this point? What's planned? Portability is important.
avatar gog Jul 10. 2006. 2:39 am #4
Exportin data should be no problem because you host you own collaboration solution and have direct access to the database.
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Jul 10. 2006. 2:47 am #5
Export will be provided but I can't promise when. Also, API is one of the priorities so you will have access to your data from any platform you want if you have proper permissions.
avatar mikeprez Jul 14. 2006. 5:28 am #6
This would be a really awesome !

Has anyone tested this out, transferring from basecamp to collab?
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Jul 14. 2006. 7:27 am #7
As I said, it is too early for such a tool. activeCollab is not feature complete product and if anyone writes that kind of tool he'll need to update it as aC codebase changes through time.
avatar tranzparency Aug 4. 2006. 6:56 am #8
Throwing an idea here. With Basecamp's new API, we should be able to build a plugin that can login and grab live data from Basecamp. What I think would be really cool is if we could find a way to integrate Basecamp data into aC and make it feel native. e.g. Task items show up in the respective lists or milestones show up on the calendar. I figured there could be a tiny icon or some identifying factor that would show it was external data. But nothing obtrusive.

So if you altered any Basecamp data in aC it would update it in Basecamp and vise versa. Considering the syncing issue, if someone went to alter a Basecamp item it would do a check first before allowing you to alter an item.

Food for thought. If we could work this idea out, it could easily expand to other platforms as well.
avatar kilo Aug 9. 2006. 8:33 pm #9
I'd like to second the OP's original request.

I'm about to dump Basecamp in favour of activeCollab and I'd love an import feature. (in due time of course)

cheers
avatar deuce868 Aug 10. 2006. 4:59 am #10
I can see this as something interesting and useful. I'm hesitant to really go with the double interface idea where you pull/update the data back and forth with the external data item. The performance hit of having to do remote calls in addition to the local ones already being run would just suck. Not to mention the rules needed to disable fields of data that activecollab supports that basecamp doesn't etc.

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