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FreshBooks referrals count Greasemonkey script

Eric — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:08 +0000

The FreshBooks page that shows referral information was lacking a quick way to see a count of the total number of referrals and how many of them have signed up for service. So, I whipped up a quick Greasemonkey script to show the totals at the top of the page. It’s really quite basic, but it’s nice for me to have, so I figured I’d throw it up here and see if anybody else would find it useful. It doesn’t do the more complicated AJAX magic it could do to always show the true total, even when you are in paging mode and “viewing page x of y”. It just counts the information visible and shows that in the sub-header. If you want to have a total count, click the “view all X pages” link at the bottom of the page (note: it seems you can also bookmark that page, it works for me).

Install the Greasemonkey script here!

See below for before and after screenshots.

Without the script

With the script

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Freshbooks Greasemonkey Script – Select All Projects

Eric — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:35:31 +0000

I just created another greasemonkey script for Freshbooks. This one lets me select all projects easily from the generate invoice page. I have a client that I invoice bi-weekly and their book keeping requires me to have several separate projects setup. Minor annoyance to always select them all, so I created a little script to add a select all on that page.

Download it from userscripts.org

See the screenshot below:

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Updated Script – Freshbooks Paid in Full

Eric — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:13:22 +0000

Josh mentioned my Freshbooks paid-in-full script wasn’t working when entering payments for multiple invoices at a time. I’ve never had the pleasure of entering multiple invoices at a time, so I didn’t consider that scenario! It’s updated to support that now, download below.

Here is the script (Firefox & Greasemonkey Required):

freshbooks_paid_in_full.user.js

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Freshbooks Greasemonkey Script – Project/Task Auto-Select

Eric — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:19:12 +0000

As I wrote in my last post, I’ve been using Freshbooks for invoicing since I started Versite. Freshbooks is a truly awesome application, saving me tons of time, and with reasonable fees.

Yesterday, I created a greasemonkey script that creates a one-click way to mark an invoice paid in full. Today, I’ve created another script, this time to auto-select a project and/or a task, if they are the only ones assigned to the user. Based on how I organize projects and tasks, it’s common to only have a single task (“development”) in a project, and consultants assigned to only one project with a single task. Freshbooks adds two items to the project and tasks select lists: “select a task/project” and “new task/project”. “New task/project” is never used by me or my staff, and “select a task/project” just creates an extra step when there is a single project or task.

So, with this script, the following situations will be taken care of:

If the user is assigned to only one project, that project will be chosen by default. This works in the Weekly, Monthly, and Daily views
When a project is selected, if the cascaded list of Tasks has only one valid task, it will be auto-selected, and the Hours field will be given focus. This works in the Daily, Weekly and Monthly views, but only the Daily and Monthly views auto-focus the Hours field.
The top two are combined when the user is assigned only one project that has only one task.

Here is the script (Firefox & Greasemonkey Required):

freshbooks_autoselect_projtasks.user.js

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Freshbooks Greasemonkey Script – Paid in Full

Eric — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:35:44 +0000

I’ve used an online invoicing application called Freshbooks for the last few year. It’s a great invoicing application, providing everything I need for my clients – easily creating professional looking invoices, providing reports and exports of staff timesheets, ability to configure different rates for clients by project/task, etc, etc.

However, recently, I’ve become annoyed with how the “enter payment” section works. I receive all of my payments via check and go to the “enter payment” section of the application where I enter the value paid, click save and move along. The annoyance was with having to enter the value manually. Pasting the value into the payment field doesn’t work, because there is JavaScript catching key presses and preventing it from working.

Enter greasemonkey, which in a nutshell is a Firefox plugin that allows developers to write scripts that run in specific pages. Using greasemonkey, I was able to quickly create a script that adds a “Paid in full” checkbox to provide one-click support for entering the full amount of the invoice. Yay, one click.

Here is a screen shot:

Here is the script (Firefox & Greasemonkey Required):

freshbooks_paid_in_full.user.js

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