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Introducing Highrise Integration: Get Basecamp & Highrise activity in one place with Periscope

January 15th, 2009 • Releases, Screencasts
Tags: announcement, basecamp, highrise, integration, Releases

Yes, it’s true: you can now see your Basecamp and Highrise activity, by project or case or all mashed up together inside of Periscope Gadget. For all of you out there that use both of these wonderful 37signals products and have been screaming for some sort of integration between the two: this one’s for you! I have to admit, I’m a late comer to the Highrise Bandwagon, but am a very happy one! Yes, it does get a little old checking the latest updates in both places, but now you don’t have to. Just setup the accounts in Periscope, pull up the gadget and let the integration love begin. You can filter by Basecamp project or Highrise case, or you can look at just a particular account… just as before.

You’ll need to find your Authentication token inside of Highrise and add that extra little piece of information to Periscope, but other than that, it’s dead easy. Here’s a specific page (with screencast) just dedicated to the Highrise API Authentication Token you should look at.

Look out for a demo of the features in a screencast soon! In the interim, login and see what this baby can do! Or, sign up…

Highrise Authentication Token (API) How To

January 15th, 2009 • How To, Screencasts
Tags: api, api token, authentication token, highrise, howto, Progress, screencast

For Periscope Gadget to work with Highrise, a step needs to be taken in addition to supplying your username and password. As with Basecamp, an API switch needs to be flipped. In this case, the Highrise Authentication Token needs to be copied from your Highrise account and inserted into the settings for Periscope. The Token is 40 characters long and hexadecimal (numbers & letters A through F) — it’s an easy copy and paste. As always, we try to be as careful as possible when storing your sensitive information.

Here are the steps you’ll need to take, or just view the screencast below:

• Login to your Highrise account using your customized URL. It’ll look something like http://your-account.highrisehq.com/
• Click on the “My Info” link in the top right hand corner. You’ll be presented with the “User Account” tab of your own account.
• Click on “Reveal authentication token for feeds/API” which will show you a yellow highlighted 40 character long hexadecimal string.
• Copy this string to your clipboard.
• Login to your Periscope Gadget account at http://periscopegadget.com/login using your Periscope email and password.
• Add a new account by clicking on the “Add” link, or click on any of the pencils to edit a Highrise account that has already been setup.
• Paste the token from your clipboard into the field labelled “Highrise API Token”.
• Save your changes — you’re done!

Upcoming release, a sneak peek…

January 7th, 2009 • Everything else
Tags: basecamp, highrise, Progress

I’ve been working hard on a number things here, one of which is very close to being ready for release. After talking with a power user for a little bit, I couldn’t help myself and I have to post about it. I’m not going to say anything, just provide a screenshot…