On Apr 17, 11:21 pm, The Watkinson Family <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't remember if smart buckets were being added in 1.5, but in any > case, it seems that increased smart bucket functionality has great > potential to allow folks to double check their bucket integrity > whenever they do arrive. This could provide a non-intrusive solution > for everyone. Lance, Dave, et al, what do you think? >
Blair, I had similar checks built into my Excel spreadsheets as well. Most of my checking was the direct result of mistakes I had made in my 7+ years of using and tweaking that system. Unfortunately, you don't realize you need checking until you've been bit by the lack of it. I really like your idea of using smart buckets for several reasons: 1) It could solve the problems discussed in this thread. 2) It gives advanced MoneyWell users a way to easily customize the program and add functionality. This can also be easily shared by posting your "smart bucket query" on this forum. Much better than the sqlite3 hacks. 3) It is non-intrusive to other users who don't want this functionality. New users could be presented with the option of enabling a pre-canned list of useful smart buckets, similar to the list of default expense buckets. However, I think there are some problems with this approach as well: 1) What would the UI look for this? It would have to be fairly complex to have the power we really need. I know Kevin wants to keep the MoneyWell interface simple and this would be difficult. Perhaps there could be a "simple" smart bucket creation window and an "advanced" window where maybe you directly enter in SQL, although I'm sure Kevin wants to avoid that like the plague :) 2) The existing smart buckets are simply a subset of your transactions. If Kevin extends this to allow user-defined smart buckets, I'm sure he'd still want to limit them to querying for a subset of transactions. This would prevent us from implementing the checks you mention since we would need a way to query on money flows as well. Maybe Kevin can come up with something clever for us. -Lance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
