tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/suggestions/112-edit-category-viewwindow-improvementInfinite Kind: Discussion 2018-10-18T13:53:55Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/2061732009-06-22T19:29:57Z2009-06-22T19:29:57ZEdit Category View/Window Improvement<div><p>Hi avp2</p>
<p>I am not sure I understand your suggestion. It is quite possible
to post a transaction to a parent category as well as to it
children. This means that parent categories can have balances as
well as the sub categories. Please see the attached screen
shot.</p>
<p>In the screen shot you can see that there are balances for
Automotive and balances for the sub categories of Automotive. The
total column shows the sum all all transactions posted to
Automotive and all of its children.</p>
<p>Sincerely</p>
<p>Ben Spencer</p></div>Ben Spencertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/2061732009-06-22T19:59:00Z2009-06-22T20:10:44ZEdit Category View/Window Improvement<div><p>I realize that a parent category could have transactions itself.
However, that does not make seem very useful to me. To me, the only
reason for a parent is to organize its sub-categories into
sub-totaled groups. My suggestion is to show the parent subtotal in
the now unused/zeroed balance column (if you do not have
transactions posted to the parent itself of course) and thus allow
the total column to be used for a running total, possibly with an
automatic income and expense subtotal.</p>
<p>I could be missing something, but it seems to me the only reason
one might post to a parent (vs one of its sub's) is due to mistake
or because the parent was made from a category with existing
transactions and it was too much trouble to move them to the proper
sub/s (understandable given the existing dysfunctional category
batch change which means you would have to do it one at a time from
account views).</p></div>avp2tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/2061732009-07-07T21:31:55Z2009-07-07T21:31:58ZEdit Category View/Window Improvement<div><p>AVP2: "it seems to me the only reason one might post to a parent
(vs one of its sub's) is due to mistake......."</p>
<p>Not so. I frequently find expenses occurring that don't fit in
any existing sub-category but aren't important enough to go to the
trouble of creating one. If I did that my list would get far too
long & nit-picky for my liking. So those just get popped into
the parent - nice & handy.<br>
Admittedly, otherwise I could have a sub-category "other" or
"miscellaneous" within every parent, but I prefer not to duplicate
any name if I can avoid it.<br></p></div>Alexander Miller