[Bug]: "To Budget" should take into consideration transactions with no category

[tavlima]

Verified issue does not already exist?

• I have searched and found no existing issue

Is this related to GoCardless, Simplefin or another bank-sync provider?

• I have checked my server logs and could not see any errors there
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What happened?

I just imported 6 months worth of transactions and didn't have time to go and classify all of them, but coming from nYNAB, I thought I could rely on the "To Budget" for current/future months, still... Except that I can't.

IMHO, the current behavior is misleading, as I definitely don't have 900 available for March.

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The transactions

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The budget

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nYNAB transactions

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nYNAB budget, for reference

What error did you receive?

No response

Where are you hosting Actual?

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What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

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Operating System

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[youngcw]

There is a feature request for this #1794. Closing the issue since its not really a bug, but its true that it can be confusing.

[tavlima]

I see. IMHO it is not just confusing: it makes the whole budget useless, unless you have all of those transactions categorized. In fact, this is the second bug report about the same thing, so I'm afraid we will have to disagree on how to classify this. If this is not a bug, then I guess it is "by design", which doesn't make much sense to me.

[tavlima]

Also, apologies for not search thoroughly before posting this.

[Kidglove57]

I have four years of records in Actual so of course I can’t fully appreciate your situation. However, leaving aside any rights or wrongs as to the issue you raise, I would have approached it this way:

1. Set an opening balance on each account at the beginning of the series of imported transactions.
2. Check that my account balances after import are still correct
3. Categorise all the imported transactions as either “Pre Actual Expenses” or “Pre Actual income”
4. Start budgeting in Actual from the beginning of a new month using the account balances available
5. In due course use the “hide category” facility for the “ Pre Actual” categories.