Possibility for positive or negative budget values gone

[Steve Summer]

Hi,
thank you for your great work!

Until a few versions before it was possible to have a budget value with positive or negative amount.
Now it is only possible to have a negative value for expenses and a positive for incomes in budgets.

I understand the idea behind, but for me in some cases it makes sense to have the flexibility for both, e.g. when I expect a refund for expenses or a negative income (e.g. trading loss).

Can you please change to the old behaviour?

Thank you for your understanding.

Best regards,
Steve

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

this was set to avoid mistake of input, new user were sometime input + value for expense budget
why not just set the category to it type ?

you can have:
health (-)
- doctor
- hospital
+ refund

[Steve Summer (stevesummer)]

Hi Maxime,
thank you for your reply.

I checked your suggestion according to my budgets. I really have several budgets which can be positive in one month and negative in other months. If i split it would make budgeting more complex and harder to manage.

I am not a programmer and don´t know if it is easily to do, but could image following:

a) Option (checkbox) to enable negative/positive values in budgets like old behaviour

b) if insert budget value without prefix + or - it will automatically converted to - for expenses and + for incomes. If prefix + or - for a value in user input, it will kepted.

c) input in quotes like '+100' or '-100' will override the rule

Thank you and best regards,
Steve

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

I implemented b) if insert budget value without prefix + or - it will automatically converted to - for expenses and + for incomes. If prefix + or - for a value in user input, it will kepted.

> as this is the existing behavior for split as well.
> ONLY available in budget tabview