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

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