On Dec 12, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Patrick Burleson wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Christopher Larson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Dec 12, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Kevin Hoctor wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 12, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Christopher Larson wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to suggest a couple little features for the usability of >>>> the >>>> allocate income panel. I'm thinking that: >>>> 1) it'd be nice to be able to choose "None" under the Monthly >>>> Timing >>>> dropdown, for income that's a windfall, and which you want to >>>> manually >>>> allocate to specific buckets rather than obeying the spending plan >>> >>> There is a "No Plan" frequency setting for a bucket that lets you >>> manually allocate income and exclude it from the spending plan >>> because >>> the cash flow for that bucket is too irregular. In this case, you'd >>> use a manual drag and drop method to create a money flow to or from >>> this bucket. >> >> It's the check that's outside the plan, not the bucket. The buckets >> all fit into the plan, I just got some cash that I wasn't expecting. >> When I open the allocate income window, it forces me to use the first >> or last month allocation, and to manually allocate it, I now have to >> go, bucket by bucket, clearing them out. There's no option to clear >> out the bucket amounts, or select *neither* first or last half for >> the >> allocation. > > I get occasional checks like that for work I've done on the side. What > I do with them is assign their deposit transaction to an income bucket > I have created called "Misc Income". Then I only do manual money flows > to buckets from there. That way I don't muck up my normal allocation > steps with it. Ah, that's a good idea. Thanks, I'll do that. -- Chris Larson clarson at kergoth dot com clarson at mvista dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
