import project "budget" field

[ClintfromCanada]

Hello, I am importing data from Version 1.31 and in reviewing the import code I see that the "budget" field is unsupported. Does anyone have any guidance for me where I could start in including this field in the import or what mods I would need to make? I have tons of projects in my old database where I would like to carry over the budget value into the new db. Even if it is moving it into an integer or something.

Thanks!

Clint

[kevinpapst]

Hm, indeed you are right. I missed that field...
You could try to add a line after this one:

->setBudget($oldProject['budget'] ?: 0)

[ClintfromCanada]

That worked Kevin. Now the next problem I have is that we had the Budget value as being the number of hours estimated that are required to get a job done. Because I have a fixed rate for each project, if I use Hours budgeted it should be able to automatically calculate the total in $ spent. The trouble is, I think the "budget" field is used in the program as $. My next step is to look for other calculations to see where or how difficult it would be to change that from a $ value to an hours budgeted value, but that sounds harder than it's probably worth. I may need to tackle it from the import side where I do the calculation on import so the budget field is in $.

Clint

[kevinpapst]

The field is displayed in the customers currency, so in your case likely dollars.
I plan to add an explicit hourly budget field this week for project and additionally budgets columns for activities and customers as well, so maybe you want to wait for that? Or you go ahead and migrate the data later between the columns.
I guess you saw that reporting is a feature which is yet missing...

[kevinpapst]

I am currently working on the budgets.
How exactly did you adjust the importer, with my code example or did you have to cast the value anyhow?

[ClintfromCanada]

Regarding the importer, I simply used the code you had suggested and it worked correctly.

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