Namespace categories by group
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Matthew Davis
I have category groups that share children with the same name as other category groups and would like to be able to use the same category name twice. So, for example:
* Property 1
- Income
- Expenses
* Property 2
- Income
- Expenses
I could prefix all the subcat names but ideally i'd prefer not to do this.
It would be nice if all categories were namespaced internally by group (with a default "global" group) so that there wouldn't be conflicts with category group children having the same name as another group or the global group.
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varontron
This is a critical feature which would alleviate the need for idiosyncratic workarounds as others have described.
Category Groups should just be top-level categories. Categories can have unique identifiers (exposed or hidden) and then be arbitrarily related. Then their names and parent-child relationships can just be attributes like in a property graph.
This would enable a variety of features including:
-Namespacing, e.g., Auto > Repair; Home > Repair
-Deep nesting, e.g., Auto > Repair > Tools; Auto > Repair > Expendables; Home > Repair > Tools; Home > Repair > Expendables;
-Pivoting and Rollups, in reports and analysis, e.g., Tools > Home + Auto
and as others have indicated, more granular control over budget and tracking at sub-category levels.
Jen
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Option to display category group on transactions page
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TJ
Often I'll have "Other" as a subcategory in my categories; however - The transactions list only shows the subcategory - not the parent category, so if I'm scanning through things all I will see is "Other" and it's impossible to tell what category it's actually in
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Adam
+1 I have the same use-case. Lightly-related would be the ability to have a Category Group be nothing other than a container, and be allowed to change the "Treat as income" or "Exclude from budget" on each individual Category within the group.