[GNC] Editing a Budget - "from this period onwards"

[Jim Passmore]

Thanks, Adrien, but those functions are only of limited help.

All periods  (and estimate) can be useful *at the beginning* of a year.  I
usually copy a budget when starting a new year, then use the "all periods"
function to fill December numbers into Jan-Dec of the new year where they
have changed from the previous January.

However, let's say you get a raise in April.  Your budget then changes
(e.g., in the US) for your income, federal taxes, state taxes, social
security, Medicare.   You don't want to overwrite the first 3 months
history, which would mess up year-end reporting, so 5 times you have to
type the new budget number, then copy to clipboard, followed by 8 reps of
mouse click and ctrl-v into May-Dec.  That's a total of 5 copy and 40 paste
operations.  (I also have other withholdings that change with income, such
as retirement--that makes the number even larger!)

Either a "fill to right" or "copy column" would cut down on the
copy/paste.  Wish I could offer to help implement this, but I have zero
experience with C/C++.

-- 

*Jim Passmore*




On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 6:42 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> There is the function to edit 'all periods' for a particular account at
> a time. (on the toolbar, and in the Edit menu)
>
> Of course this isn't just 'to the right' but for all periods in the budget.
>
> There is not an easy way I can see to copy an entire period to others.
>
> And of course there is the 'estimate' feature based on your historical
> data, which you can take as-is, or average over the range of periods.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 12/26/21 9:31 PM, Jim Passmore wrote:
> > I would echo the feature request for "fill from selected to the right".
> > Another good addition to the budget editor would be the ability to copy
> an
> > entire period column for all accounts.
> > Thanks!
> >
>
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