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Michael Pitra replied on March 22, 2009 16:44 to the problem "Default chosen timeframe after open document" in Hardcoded Software:

Ah ok - I'm looking forward to see this implemented. Thanks for your quick response!

Michael Pitra replied on March 18, 2009 06:46 to the question "Not fully understanding monthly budget feature" in Hardcoded Software:

I have an additional suggestion regarding the monthly budget feature (since I would miss this): the best way to set monthly budgets is to allow several targets, as it is in the split transaction dialog for several expense accounts. So it would be possible to have several assets and expense accounts like "Cash" that act as budgeting targets.

Michael Pitra replied on March 18, 2009 06:44 to the problem "Bug in monthly budget" in Hardcoded Software:

I've tried it with explicitly leaving the field, setting an expense account and clicking in the expense name text field, then hitting <enter>. This worked as you described. Thanks for this quick workaround. Seems to behave as expected now.
I'll do further testing with your app, if you don't care ;)</enter>

Michael Pitra replied on March 17, 2009 15:03 to the problem "Bug in monthly budget" in Hardcoded Software:

1) Of course it is the latest version.
2) minimal example document works as expected.

I even tried with some umlauts in the names, and by using account groups.

Now I'm not sure how to proceed on this bug. Anything else what I could do to help debugging?

Michael Pitra replied on March 17, 2009 13:47 to the question "Not fully understanding monthly budget feature" in Hardcoded Software:

Thanks for your quick support. The case for budgeting other expense accounts (not for cash) is that I also do my errands using cash (which is not an asset, as described before). I want to use the budget feature to set expected expenses that are considered in the graphs, not to set myself some limits.
Great to see that this will make it into 1.5! You do an excellent job with your work. I recommended moneyGuru to a colleague of mine, maybe you get another customer soon ;)

Michael Pitra replied on March 17, 2009 13:40 to the problem "Bug in monthly budget" in Hardcoded Software:

Unfortunately, there is no message output on the Console. Nothing gets saved when I press save, even when I try to set budgets on different expense accounts.
I use account groups as well. Maybe some screenshot would be of help?

Michael Pitra asked a question in Hardcoded Software on March 17, 2009 07:08:

Not fully understanding monthly budget feature

Why are there only assets to choose for the budget target? You write in your documentation, that every expense account is a fully fledged account - so I created a cash expense account (as you recommended if you are unsatisfied when you have to enter your 0.99 chocolate bars). This should also be a budget target, should'nt it?

Michael Pitra reported a problem in Hardcoded Software on March 17, 2009 07:06:

Bug in monthly budget

I have the following problem:

When I add a monthly budget to an expense account, this seems to be broken.

Steps to reproduce:

1) select an expense account
2) enter monthly budget of e.g. 100 EUR
3) select another epense account
4) enter monthly budget of 400 EUR
5) select the expense account from step 1)
6) the info dialog shows 400 EUR (instead of the correct 100 EUR)

7) save the moneyGuru document
8) the XML file does not contain any "budget" attribute somewhere
9) restart moneyGuru
10) the entered amount of monthly budget disappeared

This can be reproduced several times. I noticed that sometimes a "budget" attribute appeared in the XML file, but also with wrong values.

Michael Pitra replied on March 15, 2009 19:05 to the question "Account view to feature accumulated accounts (taken from account group)" in Hardcoded Software:

That would be a good way to do it. But at the moment I got no clue how to design it (considering usability), because the transaction view is so list oriented. Maybe something like the filter feature from Adobe Lightroom would do the trick best; I'll attach an image so that you get an idea how this works there. (and if you like getting suggestions ;)



The text values are (translated to English):

Library filter: Text / Attributes / Metadata / None - Userdefined filter
Text "Filename" "contains" ".cr2"

With this user defined filter one can filter almost everything - maybe this would be a good way to do transaction filtering in moneyGuru. Amount between <lowerbound> and <upperbound> for example, and so on.

Michael Pitra replied on March 15, 2009 18:20 to the question "Account view to feature accumulated accounts (taken from account group)" in Hardcoded Software:

Ah ok, I got the point; the add transaction in this "accumulated" view will be useless. What I want to achieve is something like this:
I group some expense accounts to a group called "lifestyle"; there I'll find accounts for books&music, going out, clothes, and so on. For example now, when I browse through the months looking on the graphs in the profit&loss view, I see that the lifestyle group uses almost the same amount of money, except one month. Then I want to see all transactions for all accounts to get the idea why this was that high in this particular month. I hope you were able to understand my idea ;)

Michael Pitra asked a question in Hardcoded Software on March 15, 2009 18:02:

Account view to feature accumulated accounts (taken from account group)

It would be great if I selected an account group in the profit/loss view and there would be the same possibility to have the account view for all accounts under the account group. Is this planned?
I use the account groups primarily for categorizing my expenses (rather than prefixing the expense account with category:accountname, because this is not very useful for inserting transactions in a fast way).

Michael Pitra replied on March 15, 2009 12:38 to the question "Character Set in CSV Feature" in Hardcoded Software:

Great to hear that this will make it into the next release! Since I was starting with a new file and only wanted to import the data from this year I just had to alter a few transactions, so I was able to do this without the correct encoding. But for the next (ongoing) imports this will be important. Thanks for the quick reply.

Michael Pitra asked a question in Hardcoded Software on March 15, 2009 09:44:

Character Set in CSV Feature

When I try to import a CSV (exported from my online banking system), there is a problem with the character set. The bank automatically exports to ISO-8859-1, but even when I convert the file to UTF-8, there are always problems with german umlauts; these are not shown correctly in the import dialog and finally after the data were imported. Is there any hint on how to convert the file that the german umlauts are displayed correctly?