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.


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