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gualtie
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Hi Angeman,
I use to register items bought at various supermarket. I use different categories to log main products I usually buy, such as a particular brand of biscuits or drink or youghurt and so on. For example I've a category for pepsi cola 1,5l bottle or for Franziskraner bier.
Sometimes I'd like to know where I could buy at lower price a particular product but the only way I know is a bit complex. First I must export the whole account in a csv file, then I have to import in excel where I'll be able to analyze categories in order to compare different shops.

:idea: Why you don't think to add a report, based on categories, directly in icompta?
Now you can apply a filter but the produced list, display the transaction total amount and not the single category price. So it is complex to compare products. :( :(

:idea: Another improvement concerns people. It would be very appreciated (for me) if you can assign a people not only at transaction level, but even at category level of a transaction. So you can specify that a category in the transaction is "assigned" to a particular people. Now if you have a transaction with two categories (i.e. a t-shirt and trousers), both bought in the same transaction but t-shirt for Anna and trousers for John how is it possible to specify each category to each people?

:idea: Would you be so kind to consider to "fix" the add category button? The solution of scrolling window is very unconfortable if you have a lot of category addede in a transaction. Adding a new category, you have to scroll the window at the top for each new category added..

:idea: Finally, is iCompta scriptable (by Applescript/Automator) actions? It would be useful if you can add transactions via batch script to a particular account. For example, if you receive a confirmation mail by Vodafone, after a phone sim charge, you could prepare an action in order to add a trsaction, without having the need to start application and to remember to add the transaction....

I hope to have explained these matters properly. I beg your pardon for my bad english.

Regards. ;) ;)
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gualtie
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hi Angeman,

may be a short answer would be nice..

I think I was not able to explain my suggestion so well.

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No you explained it quite well, these are excellent suggestions and I will consider them for future releases.
gualtie
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Hi, may I hope in V5 for theese features?
Thanks a lot ;)
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Yes they should be included except AppleScript which may come on a 5.x release.
tbikeev
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+1 for AppleScript support - even a basic automation for import/export would be very useful - especially for the management of the metadata (rules, categories, etc ... ) between separate files.
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Two another suggestions ( I am a heavy cli ledger user http://www.ledger-cli.org/ and find iCompta to be a nice GUI complement to ledger).

- It would be great to display transaction comments as a proper TextField and not just a line. (My bank is sending detailed info that is actually contains multiple lines).

- I understand that the "People" feature is meant to track debt "situations". What would be nice to have is to find a way to have additional transaction meta-data that is "Project" or "Purpose" or "Person" linked. I think this can be done already through comments etc, but it is a clean user-interface part that is missing. I wish it would be implemented similar as "People". That is especially important for the split transactions.

Thanks for the great app.

Cheers, Thomas
pao008
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In the future version of iCompta, we will automatically sync iphone and mac?
Thanks
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