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#3 Shifting budgets by category reclassification can be confusing

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2016-03-12
2016-03-09
Thomas Wang
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A category reclassification transaction can shift around budgeted amount, which can be surprising for the end-user.
(seen in version 0.27)

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  • Thomas Wang

    Thomas Wang - 2016-03-10

    It appears that not shifting budget during category reclassification makes more sense.

    03/24/16 food (big store) 200.0
    03/24/16 food => shop 30

    The effect of shifting budget would move $30 budget from food to the shopping category. Sort of unexpected.

    The budget shifting side-effect was implemented when the usage pattern was anticipated to always involve the cash, but even in that use-case the utility was not convincing.

     
  • Thomas Wang

    Thomas Wang - 2016-03-12
    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Thomas Wang

    Thomas Wang - 2016-03-12

    Fixed in version 0.30

     

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