Increasing the number of periods in a budget

Phil Longstaff phil.longstaff at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 09:31:50 EST 2016


The budget stores the amounts by budget period number, not starting date.
Therefore, yes, the numbers in period 1 would stay in period 1. Currently,
there is no way to fix it.

Phil

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Cheryl Wheeler <c_wheeler_2002 at yahoo.ca>
wrote:

> Thanks, David T. and John Ralls, for answering my question about the
> Revert feature. Now I will ask a question about the event that led me to
> use the Revert feature. :-)
>
> A while back, I created a budget with 3 periods. After filling in all of
> the numbers, I decided that I wanted the budget to have 4 periods, with the
> new one coming before the already-existing ones (to the left of the
> existing columns in the budget). So I changed the budget options as
> follows: in the "Budget Period: beginning on:" dropdown, I changed the date
> to one period earlier than it was. In the "Number of Periods:" dropdown, I
> increased the number from 3 to 4.
>
> After doing this, all of my budget numbers were associated with the wrong
> periods, in my opinion. Basically, the budget numbers in column 1 stay in
> column 1 after the options are changed, even though the period that column
> 1 represents is different than it was when I entered the numbers.
>
> To get what I wanted, I ended up re-entering all of my budget numbers in
> all periods, but I'd like to know whether there is another way to solve the
> problem, and whether it is a bug.
>
> As a separate issue, if I modify the options *only* to increase the number
> of periods, then a period/column is added at the right side of the budget,
> with some numbers filled in. I'm curious where those numbers come from, as
> I can't see any relationship in them to any of my other numbers. If I had a
> choice, I'd prefer them all to be blank instead of pre-filled.
>
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