Pete's dashboard

Hi Ed,

I have exactly the same problem because my bank is the RBS, therefore the same online credit card banking system. It's very frustrating that they don't include payments to the card as a transaction, and I can see no way of viewing/downloading these payment transactions. It seems the only way of doing this on FA is to treat it as type: Other Money In, and Category: Misc Income receipt. Is there a better way to treat this that you can think of?

Obviously the outgoing money from my current account shows up in the uploaded statement, so maybe it would be useful to have a type 'Transfer to Another Account' or something else when adding an explanation to an uploaded statement transaction, just like as is included in the 'Add a Manual Statement' page. I assume there is a reason why this isn't featured in the 'add an explanation' page Type dropdown?

Obviously this is not a fault of FA, but I can't imagine the RBS group are likely to change their very, very, very, crap online Business Credit Card system anytime soon, so are there any plans to accomodate this on FA? Any suggestions are most welcome otherwise!

Cheers,

Pete.

I've got a recurring invoice setup but it's not automatically emailing to my client. The problem is that I can't edit the settings for the recurring invoice so I amunable to select the check box to enable the feature. Or am I stupidly missing something? :-(

Hi again,

I assume this base64Encode method requires a class like from:

http://dynamicflash.com/goodies/base64/

e.g.


import com.dynamicflash.util.Base64;

var projectsUrl:String = "http://yourdomain.freeagentcentral.com/projects";
var userName:String = "username";
var userPassword:String = "password";
var encoded:String = Base64.encode(userName + ":" + userPassword);
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(projectsUrl);
request.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/xml"));
request.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader("Accept", "application/xml"));
request.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic" + encoded));
request.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;
try
{
loader.load(request);
}
catch (error:Error)
{
trace("Unable to load requested document.");
trace(encoded);
}


Any ideas why this isn't working?

P.

Hey Olly. I was hoping to do it in Flash (AS3) perhaps as an AIR app. Once I can find any examples of the basics of REST with Flash it should be no problem. Any suggestions?

I'm actually just wanting a timer for FA or build one myself. However I have no idea where to start with the API.

Hi guys, any more development on your own freshbooks style timer? I'm still using my freshbooks clock to track my time and then put the timeslips in manually into FA. No offence to Timepost but I just don't want to fork out any more money on addons. If I was able to work out the API I would build my own Flash clock for FA in a browser popup (Freshbooks style) or AIR app. and even donate it if you were interested. Any pointers for getting started with the API and Flash?

Invoicing without assigning it to a project would be great. I sublet my office to another designer and I have to invoice him monthly, but it seems strange making it a project.

I'm totally in agreement with naderby as a freelance web designer. If it had a simple task management system it would be fantastic. I'm floating in between Freshbooks and Freeagent at the moment and Freeagent is winning the contest because of the accounting but task time tracking on a project would be the absolute clincher and I'm sure most people in this industry would agree. There would be no need for basecamp, or freshbooks then.