* On 2020 31 Jan 15:17 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Nate, > > > First, the budget by default, I don’t think, shows any ‘cells’ like > you would think of them in a spreadsheet. You can turn on faint grey > lines here by going to Preferences > General > General and then > checking off the two options to “Enable horizontal/vertical grid lines > on table displays”. This may also show the grid lines in other places > you may not want, so toggle as needed.
Thanks Adrien. > Note also, you have to double-click where the cells are supposed to be > to get the entry field. There is a way to tab/enter around the table, > but it is quite cumbersome. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Well. That was totally NOT described in the manual. At least not in the Gudgets chapter. Everywhere else in GC there is a defined grid and an obvious entry box and in this form, NOTHING? Sorry, I am venting a bit as this is a severe UI deviation and had me frustrated enough that I went out and got the mail! > It does not play nice like a spreadsheet app. > > Second, the column order in the Budget module should be > > Accounts 1st period 2nd period ... Total > > The dates of those periods are determined by how you set up the > budget, which can be changed with the ‘Options’ toolbar button. > > So the first column has account names. > > The second and subsequent columns are for each period. > > If you enter amounts in the child accounts, the parent cells will show > the sum of those entries in a grey font. > > You *could* enter amounts for the parents, but in this case you don’t > want to. > > Also, be aware that parent accounts (maybe only those set as > placeholders, I don’t recall) Will show “0.00” in light grey font for > any parts of the tree that don’t have entries yet. But the child > accounts will have nothing there in the cell. The cell will be > completely blank. And if you don’t have the grid lines turned on, that > row will look like a blank, white (empty) row. But just double-click > where you think the cell ought to be and you’ll get the entry field. I suppose there is a sound reason why only a parent account shows a total of 0.00 and leaf accounts are completely blank, but I fail to see it. I'm hardly a newbie when it comes to GUIs and such. As I am doing a yearly budget I have three columns and I had double-clicked/pressed Enter on the "Account Name" and "Total" columns as there are characters in those columns. It never occurred to me to try double-clicking the completely blank "01/01/2020" column for the leaf accounts row! Regardless, I think this really needs to be a tip in the manual's Budgets chapter and given the rest of the UI, this was NOT intuitive at all. > The Filter settings are not remembered. You have to reset them each > time you open the Budget. I think there is a bug filed on this > already. In fact, it seems as though the subsequent times that it is opened that the filter is ineffective. I didn't play with it extensively, however. Thanks for you patient answers, Adrien. GC is helping me so much that this UI inconsistency really was unexpected and threw me for a loop especially with parent accounts showing values and the leaf accounts being blank. I am on my way, now. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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