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Basecamp Document Title Became "Untitled" After an API Update? Send the Title Too

Last verified Oct 15

1What happened

our engineering agent updated a Basecamp document through the API, sending only the new content. Basecamp saved the content and changed the title to "Untitled". Anything that looked for the document by its title stopped finding it, and the agent's own daily check flagged it as missing the next morning.

2What we did

  1. Put the real title back.

  2. Changed every document update to send the title along with the content.

    For buildersin a PUT to a Basecamp document, include both title and content, even if only the content changed.

3How we know it worked

the document has kept its title through every update since Oct 15, and the daily check finds it.

4What you can take from it

when you update a Basecamp document, always send the title, or you may lose it.

basecampSolved Oct 15
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