| Summary: | Allow multiple categories for budgets | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] skrooge | Reporter: | iwishiwasaneagle <me> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Stephane MANKOWSKI <stephane> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | stephane |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 2.29.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 25.1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Manjaro | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Screenshot of category combination in MD | ||
Hi, I don't know MoneyDashboard and I don't understand the need. In Skrooge a budget item can be attached to a category (example: Car > Services). If you want, you can create a budget item for a parent category (example: Car). So, I don't really understand what you need more. Could you give me a detailed example ? (In reply to Stephane MANKOWSKI from comment #1) > Hi, > > I don't know MoneyDashboard and I don't understand the need. > In Skrooge a budget item can be attached to a category (example: Car > > Services). > If you want, you can create a budget item for a parent category (example: > Car). > So, I don't really understand what you need more. > Could you give me a detailed So a more detailed example: I want to keep a track of "fun" spending. To me, personally, this might include multiple categories. Such as - Charity - Giving - Leisure - Personal Care > Products - Food > Dining Out Now, I could add all of them to a new `Fun` meta-category but this would then mean that they are removed entirely from the original categories which I might no like. Understood ! I will analyze. The budget module in Skrooge is designed to take into account each expense and each income exactly once, in order to ensure a balanced budget by design. This principle is essential to me. Your request is not compatible with this principle, and therefore I do not wish to implement your proposal. |
Created attachment 159533 [details] Screenshot of category combination in MD Currently, when creating a budget, you can only specify a single category. However, in reality, a budget might contain multiple categories (i.e. one budget for Car > Services + Car > Loan + Car > Insurance and another for Car > Fuel). To do this right now you have to create separate instances and keep track of each one, linking them with rules. However, it'd be great to be able to do this in a single budget item, similar to how MoneyDashboard allows it