budget line with value of 0 not shown in Budget Report

[Kenny3794]

Open example.xhb. Go to Budget Report. While in the example accounts, there is a transaction for category "Car", there is no line in this budget report showing that this budget category is above the budget amount (0). Per my understanding of the documentation, this report should show all expense categories with either a budgetted amount OR having a transaction with that category should be included.

Running version 5.0-rc with GTK+ 3.14.7.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

maybe I should clarify a little bit the documentation (i will)
this is the purpose a 'Force monitoring this category', because a category with a 0.0 budget is not considered to be part of the budget.

[Kenny3794 (kenny3794)]

Yes - this would help. I did not see that on the budget report pages in help and it does make sense. I have a specific set of categories, so I deleted all unused categories. I can see that not everyone will do this. Thank you for this update to the documentation.

[Kenny3794 (kenny3794)]

Actually - after re-review (and using the "force" option, I change my response. I don't feel this is adequate. For, example: I have a category A with custom budget as shown:

Jan = $0
Feb = $20
March = $10
April = $0
June = $10
Jul = $10
Aug = $0
Sept = $20
...

I clearly have a budget, and some months it is 0, some > 0. However, circumstances dictate that I need to make a transaction in Jan instead of Feb. This means my Jan expenditures are over budget. The only way to show this as over-budget, is to set for the FORCE option for this and any similar budget items. But in April, I don't spend any money on this item, staying within the $0. For this case, there is no reason to show in the budget as it just crowds out valuable data with non-valuable data. I see that you have this commented out for some reason on line 799 of rep_budget.c.

Perhaps changing the || to && in the commented out code would be better (thus removing $0 budget and $0 spending from the "forced" monitoring)?

Thus, the new code on line 799 of rep_budget.c is:
    if(tmp_budget[pos] || (entry->flags & GF_FORCED && tmp_spent[pos]))

Please consider making this functionality available (or at the least, optional)

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

don't mixup; the force option purpose is to display the category into the budget report taking no consideration of spend and budget.

for the rest my current test do not point any trouble on the computing so far.
here is a sample file with your example.

[Kenny3794 (kenny3794)]

I see that you're example is not the same as mine. In your example, you placed a budget of 20 and a transaction in the same month. I've modified your file to show my example. I also created a snapshot image showing the budget of $0 for Feb (to the right of image), the transaction of $20 for Feb (to the bottom left), and in the budget report (to the top left), there are no lines. I will also add the modified xhb file.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

should review this

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Every category that has a budget (event on another month) is now displayed