Method Budget 0.2.0

Method Budget 0.2.0

A start window for new and recent budgets, other programs' budgets that open with a
double-click and come out to the penny, and a first way to work on one budget together.

Start a budget in one place

• A start window. When nothing else opens, the app starts with your pinned and recent
  budgets, each with its total and when it last changed. Search, pin, open or take one off
  the list from the keyboard. File > New… opens it any time.
• New Budget. Give it a title and, if you like, the type, season and episode, dates,
  schedule length, location and currency. Pick a chart of accounts from the bundled
  charts, start from a budget file, or start empty. It is saved into the folder you choose
  straight away.
• Closing the last tab brings the start window back instead of closing the window.
• Moved files are followed. Pinned and recent budgets you move in Finder stay on the
  list.

Open other programs' budgets

• Open converts them. File > Open takes a budget exchange JSON or XML, the Excel or
  tab-delimited export, or a spreadsheet, and works out which it is. An export goes
  through a figure-by-figure check, then becomes a new Method Budget tab. The original file
  is never changed, and the first Save offers the same name as a .mthd.
• On a Mac, Open With offers Method Budget for these files as a second choice.
• Exports come out to the penny. Percent units, fringe ranges and cutoffs, contingency
  charges, tax credits and whole-dollar account totals now come across as the budget had
  them. A round percentage charge comes in as a real percent charge.

Share a budget through a folder

• File > Share. Put a budget in a folder you already share (Dropbox, iCloud Drive,
  Google Drive, LucidLink) and everyone who opens it edits the same budget. Changes from
  others appear within seconds, with their initials beside the rows they touch.
• Nothing is lost when two people change the same thing. The cell is marked, both
  values are kept, and you pick one in the Review tab. The Activity tab lists who changed
  what, and Edit > Who Changed This answers it for one cell.
• Undo is yours. It takes back your own changes, not other people's.
• This is the first step. Roles, invites and live sessions without a shared folder come
  later.

Numbers that match

• Round account totals to whole units. A new setting in Budget Setup > Settings,
  matching budgets kept with no decimals in totals. New budgets start with it on.
• New budgets start the way producers expect. Account numbers with no separator
  (1301), fringes posted by budget, the usual units and a cutoff factor of 1.0.
• More from Budget Setup. Credit rows on accounts, frozen original totals for
  comparison, totals in another currency, and currency formats.

Fixed

• Percent fringes and charges. A few percentages came out a cent low; they now match
  to the cent.
• Flat fringes on empty lines. A flat fringe no longer charges a line whose amount is 0.

Good to know

• New budgets now round account totals to whole units. A budget you already have keeps its
  own setting, and the checkbox in Budget Setup > Settings turns it off.
• Sharing needs every person on 0.2.0 or later.
• The Windows and Linux builds are included but haven't been tested yet.