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[Bug]: Budget goal templates for "up to" ceased working as expected #1663
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Originally created by @Arnoud-B on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024).
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What happened?
I had the following budget goal templates for a category:
This has ensured for months that the budget for this category would always be 200 whenever the budget template was applied, unless the amount spent was above 1000.
After updating to the latest Actual, this doesn't work anymore.
Situation:
Now when I apply the budget template to November through January, the result is this:
While I would expect it to be like this:
I don't see any changes in the documentation.
Where are you hosting Actual?
Docker
What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
Safari
Operating System
Mac OSX
@youngcw commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
Can you use
#template 1000 up to 200or
#template 1000#template 0 up to 200The template code was recently rewritten to not be such a mess. The up to processing changes slightly, but Im surprised that yours no longer works
@youngcw commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
Oh, nevermind. I looked at your tables more closely. The templates look like they are working right. The category has 200 available each month and you spent it so the balance is what you are showing.
So for each of the months you showed the category balance was 200 before you spent anything. So if you add up balance+spent they all equal 200 which is expected.
@Arnoud-B commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
If the 2nd table is now what is expected, how am I supposed to write a template that ensures the balance is set to 200 after the template is applied? (for each month)
@Arnoud-B commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2024):
@youngcw Could you suggest how to achieve the expected outcome again?
@youngcw commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2024):
I don' think you can with templates as is. What you were doing was a bug. Templates were designed to budget the same amount no matter when during the month they are applied (unless previous months had changed).
@Arnoud-B commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2024):
Thanks, I have changed my approach.
However, this introduced a new bug: When using
#template up to 0, it doesn't remove any funds over 0, while the documentation states that it should. Should I report that separately?@youngcw commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2024):
yes report that separately. If you can create a test budget and upload it to the issue that would also help a lot
@Arnoud-B commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2024):
Done.