Recurring budget entries more granularity

[oppereindbaas]

When making recurring budget entries the only options provided are:

• Monthly
• Half-yearly
• Yearly

I'd like to propose more granularity, as there are recurring items that aren't on a set interval.
Currently I use the macOS app Greenbooks which has a "Scheduled" items option. You can set it as following:

Scheduled:
Repeats: Monthly / Weekly / None
Interval: [x] of input at Repeats
OPTIONAL Sub interval, in case of month, every [x] day of month (1-31)
OPTIONAL Sub internval, in case of week, starts on [x] (mo-tue-wed-thu-fri-sat-sun)

[ulsklyc]

Shipped in v1.81.0.

The interval is now a unit plus a count: weekly, monthly or yearly, times 1 to 99. Every two weeks, every three months, every second year - all of it expressible, which was the point of your request.

On the sub-intervals in your screenshot. Greenbooks asks separately for the day of the month, or the weekday a weekly schedule starts on. Yuvomi deliberately does not, because the entry already carries that: a series starting on the 15th returns on the 15th, and one starting on a Friday returns on Fridays. A separate field would be a second answer to the same question, and the two could disagree. If you want to move a series to a different day, change its date.

Half-yearly is gone as a separate choice. It was always "monthly, times 6", and keeping both spellings would mean every calculation has to understand both forever. Existing half-yearly entries were converted; they now read as "every 6 months" and keep the exact same rhythm.

Two things that came out of building it and are worth knowing:

• A weekly series books several times in one month, which nothing in the module could do before - the generator only ever created one booking per series per month.
• That turned up a real bug in passing. Deleting a single generated booking recorded the whole month as skipped. Correct while a series could book at most once a month; with a weekly series, deleting one Tuesday would have suppressed the other three weeks as well. It is now recorded per due date. Existing skip marks were converted.

Your second request, #637, shipped in the same release and is answered there.

Thanks for the detailed write-up and the screenshot - the comparison made the model much easier to get right.