Budgeting prototype

[Phillip Shelton]

I unfortunately do not have the time to add my thoughts to this discussion, but do feel that the idea's that these guys have come up with for doing budgets works. 
http://www.simplybudgets.com/


Phillip

-----Original Message-----
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:03, Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> 
> Another point or two of clarification:  (For this I am using [B] to
> specify a budget category, as apposed to a regular account)
>  * Would I be able to link Expenses:Dining and Expenses:Groceries to
>    the same [B]Expenses:Food category?  
>    I guess so, from figure 5 on your page.
>  * Will I be able to see all the transactions for a particular budget
>    category?

Maybe another window could handle this.  Some sort of customised account
register with transactions for a period for all the accounts in that
catagory.  A right click menu option could bring up this register for
the selected category.  Come to think of it this might go hand in hand
with the suggestion for a planned/actual view of the budgeting
information.  If you see that you were over budget in a certain category
for a period you could bring up this window to see the transactions
which contributed to that situation.

Question is, is this something that should be done by the workbench or
in a report somewhere?  Maybe both?

> 
> Nice job.  What did you use to produce the windows for the
> screen shots?
> 

I actually used glade and built them into the gnucash application. 
Doing the prototype served two purposes.  Refine/Test my ideas and learn
a bit about the design of the current code base.

Cheers,

Darin

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