For some reason when I log in using my Username and Password for my companies basecamp the project/list is retriving all the projects for my company. Including the projects I am not a part of. How do I narrow this. A user should not be able to see the projects he or she is not a part of.

Sorry, I forgot to include more information: I am developing in the .Net framework. I attach my user login as a header and then pass it the command using the request as a checker. It works but returns projects my company has that have not been added to my list of current projects.

John,

When you log in via the normal basecamp web interface, on the first tab (Dashboard), do you see all of these same projects on the right-hand side of the screen, or only the projects you are interested in?

What exactly do you mean when you say projects that you a “a part of”? I think (and I could be wrong) that the API will only return those projects that you have access to. But you may be thinking of a smaller list (maybe only the projects where Todos or Milestones are assigned to you?)

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I actually did solve my issue a few days after posting. What I meant by “projects I am a part of” was that I was seeing projects that I had not seen before/didn’t remember. This was due to, what I believe, a basecamp API error. When I make a call to retrieve a list of projects I narrow it down with <find>active</find>. The only issue with this would be the fact that it is not narrowing down. I received all the projects(even the inactive and archived ones). My list of 34 projects rocketed to 75. I cannot figure out why It would still be doing that. I managed to patch it with an if statement but to minimize the retrieval process I would appreciate any feedback as to why it would not be working. I can post an example of my code if that would help the debug process. Thanks!

I’m not aware of any “find” filtering – the API page doesn’t mention it (http://developer.37signals.com/basecamp/general.shtml). AFAIK, the only way is to get the whole list and then filter it in your code – that’s what we do.

—Peter Rust
Developer, Project Recon (www.projectrecon.net)