unable to save/update time_entries

[anibalcucco]

unable to save/update time_entries

[anibalcucco]

Hey Chris,

That's because Basecamp doesn't send the id in the time entries API end point:

GET /time_entries/#{id}.xml

<time-entry>
<date type="date">2011-11-22</date>
<description/>
<hours type="float">2.0</hours>
<person-id type="integer">2222</person-id>
<todo-item-id type="integer">2222</todo-item-id>
<person-name>The Person Name</person-name>
</time-entry>

To do what you want you'll have to:

• manually set the id
• remove non editable attributes like person_name (in the docs they say GET /time_entries/#{id}/edit.xml retrieves only attributes that can be edited but i get the same as GET /time_entries/#{id}, it doesn't exclude person_name)

At least for me, this works:

> id = 222
# get the entry
> time_entry = Basecamp::TimeEntry.find(id)
# set id manually
> time_entry.id = id
# remove person_name to avoid "unknown attribute: person_name" error
> time_entry.attributes.delete("person_name")
# update attributes
> time_entry.hours = 4
# save
> time_entry.save
=> true

I know is a bit ugly but is the solution i found. If you find a better solution, let me know.

Hope this helps,
Anibal

[chrxs]

Ah excellent!
thanks Anibal :D