Hi,
I recently discovered Buddi and I am in the process of trying it out. I like its simplicity and abstract approach.
I read the tutorial, but could not grasp the concept of parent category (it is not explained in the tutorial).
I would like to use a hierarchical category concept. For example, define a top level category "fixed costs", with "apartment rent" as a typical subcategory.
This would allow me to do my planning on the detailed level only for when I consider it necessary (e.g. only for certain time periods).
In the "My budget" overview, the siblings of a parent category are summed up and shown in brackets, but I do not understand how to use it.
Best regards from Germany
Peter
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Addendum to my first post an hour ago:
I continued to play around with the hierarchy of categories:
maybe it is with the reports that I have a problem: the report of income and expenses shows the categories in alphabetical order, not in hierarchical order.
In order to get an easy to read report, I would have to mirror the hierarchy in the names for the categories, e.g. FixedCosts_rent. I can't imagine that this is your concept.
Please help.
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I found the report I was looking for, in the list of plug-ins. Sorry that I didn't look there first.
So my original question seems to boil down to the following:
what is the theory behind attaching a value to the parent category as you do it in Buddi?
Should one consider it as a kind of buffer added to the planned values of the child categories?
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If you arrange your budgets in a hierarchy, when looking at it in My Budget view you will see the sum of all child entries in brackets: e.g. if your folders are arranged as follows:
Utilties
-> Gas 100
-> Water 50
-> Phone 30
then it will show Utilities as $0.00 ($180.00)
In the core Buddi it is more for organization than for actual reporttng.
Hope that helps!
Cheers
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It sounds like you have things worked out - great!
As for the damaged version, can you try selecting a different mirror? I have seen it happen in the past that a certain Sourceforge mirror has copied a corrupted version. Normally it sorts itself out in time. Regardless, if you try a different mirror it should be fine.
Cheers
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Hi,
I recently discovered Buddi and I am in the process of trying it out. I like its simplicity and abstract approach.
I read the tutorial, but could not grasp the concept of parent category (it is not explained in the tutorial).
I would like to use a hierarchical category concept. For example, define a top level category "fixed costs", with "apartment rent" as a typical subcategory.
This would allow me to do my planning on the detailed level only for when I consider it necessary (e.g. only for certain time periods).
In the "My budget" overview, the siblings of a parent category are summed up and shown in brackets, but I do not understand how to use it.
Best regards from Germany
Peter
Addendum to my first post an hour ago:
I continued to play around with the hierarchy of categories:
maybe it is with the reports that I have a problem: the report of income and expenses shows the categories in alphabetical order, not in hierarchical order.
In order to get an easy to read report, I would have to mirror the hierarchy in the names for the categories, e.g. FixedCosts_rent. I can't imagine that this is your concept.
Please help.
I found the report I was looking for, in the list of plug-ins. Sorry that I didn't look there first.
So my original question seems to boil down to the following:
what is the theory behind attaching a value to the parent category as you do it in Buddi?
Should one consider it as a kind of buffer added to the planned values of the child categories?
Hello Peter,
If you arrange your budgets in a hierarchy, when looking at it in My Budget view you will see the sum of all child entries in brackets: e.g. if your folders are arranged as follows:
Utilties
-> Gas 100
-> Water 50
-> Phone 30
then it will show Utilities as $0.00 ($180.00)
In the core Buddi it is more for organization than for actual reporttng.
Hope that helps!
Cheers
Hello Wyatt,
I have now done my yearly planning with Buddi, and am very satisfied.
It turned out that I can do without hierachies (keep it simple!).
I use version 3.4.1.13 because when I downloaded the newest version, I got the error message, that the program is dammaged.
Thanks a lot for what you are doing.
All the best
Peter
It sounds like you have things worked out - great!
As for the damaged version, can you try selecting a different mirror? I have seen it happen in the past that a certain Sourceforge mirror has copied a corrupted version. Normally it sorts itself out in time. Regardless, if you try a different mirror it should be fine.
Cheers