wish: Attach Receipts/File/Image
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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HomeBank |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Maxime DOYEN |
Bug Description
Hey,
First I would like to thank you all for the great software that is very simple and easy to use. I'm very excited about the cloud version.
One thing I really miss is the ability to scan a receipt and attach it to a transaction. I'm not looking for anything fancy. On other boards people propose to run some sort of OCR on the receipt and have it automatically fill out the transaction data. That is quite ridiculous in terms of how long it would take to do properly and then nothing ever happens.
I think a lot of people just want the ability to upload a file and have it associated with a transaction.
I'm no expert but I see it working like this:
1) User specifies a folder to upload everything into
2) For a transaction, any number of files can be associated with it by hitting an upload button when I'm entering the transaction.
3) The files I selected are then copied to the folder specified in #1 and renamed (if needed). The file names are then recorded in the transaction so it knows which files to associate with each transaction.
The software doesn't care what file I attach, they are just for the user's benefit. That way if you are writing a cheque, you can scan the bill or receipt and easily look it up in the future. Since the software just keeps track of a bunch of file names associated with each transaction, it doesn't care if I upload MP3 or AVIs (though you may limit that if you want).
This would work very well with the cloud version of this as well. If people are concerned about privacy, the filenames can be given random names. That way even though the directory is publicly accessible (in cloud version) no one can guess the name. Only the database has the list of file names.
In the future you may consider some sort of container encryption to protect the entire folder, but I see that as a second step. I would be very happy with just the ability to have a filename associated with a transaction.
Thanks.
Changed in homebank: | |
assignee: | nobody → Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen) |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in homebank: | |
importance: | Low → Wishlist |
summary: |
- Wish: Attach Receipts + wish: Attach Receipts |
tags: | added: data-structure |
Changed in homebank: | |
milestone: | none → 5.2 |
Changed in homebank: | |
milestone: | 5.2 → none |
Changed in homebank: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in homebank: | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
summary: |
- wish: Attach Receipts + wish: Attach Receipts/File/Image |
to solve the lack of this feature what i'm doing is enter a number of 5 digits in the 'info' field (00024, 02306,...) and then in a directory 'infos' (at the same level than the wallet file) i put the corresponding attached files (00024.png, 00024.pdf, 02306.odt,...).