I do not follow your answer.

The footer line that lists the totals changes as different
transactions are selected, which is a great feature to understand,
over time (in the future) what the totals (and buckets) will look
like.  As I mentioned in the original post, the bank balances decrease
reflecting the money being taken from the bank account to satisfy the
transactions (like the paying of a bill).  But, my problem is that the
bucket that is listed in the transaction is not changed.

Take this example, let us say we have 1 bank account, one income
bucket, and one expense bucket.  I put $100 in the bank account.
First, the income bucket has $100 and I then flow that into a "water
utility" expense bucket.  Let us say I create a future transaction (I
did an online billpay) to pay $100.  I would highlight the transaction
and in the footer it would show the bank account at $0 (reflecting the
payment of the bill from that account), but the buckets balance would
show $100.

In your answer you mentioned the notion of "currently", but when you
highlight a future transactions, you are altering the footer totals
and (should be) buckets balance as well.  You are changing the point
in time reference from now to then in the future.

On Feb 20, 6:53 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Brian H. Mayo wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have selected an account and an expense bucket.  I have past
> > transactions and a pending (future) transaction.
> > When I select a past transactions, I see the account balance, the
> > reconciled balance and the buckets balance.  When I select the pending
> > transaction (future), I see the balance decreases (as it should), but
> > the bucket balance does not.  Shouldn't the bucket balance decrease by
> > the amount of the pending transaction?
>
> > Also, I selected the account and "All Transactions" from the SMART
> > bucket.  I have a few pending transactions on different dates.  When I
> > select the most in the future pending transaction, I see the balance
> > decreases as it should but again the bucket balance does not change.
>
> > My feeling is that the bucket balance should go down since on the date
> > that transactions switches from pending to active (open, cleared,
> > etc.) and the physical decrease from the bucket will be realized.
>
> Brian,
>
> That total does not change because you always have the same amount of  
> "cash flow" available in your buckets no matter what you have selected  
> or filtered. This is your total amount of cash you have to spend  
> currently.
>
> Peace,
>
> Kevin Hoctor
> [email protected]
> No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com
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