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Updated multi-select expense type view
Including ability to add / manage custom expense types
View custom expense types
(tile view)View custom expense type (individual view)
Read-only view
Add custom expense type flow
Only user editable attribute is “Custom expense type name” and “Short description” (added )
Retire custom expense type (see https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1341259816/Manage+custom+expense+types#Other-context)
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Spotlight for managing expense types on updated multi-select expense type view
Search bar for expense types
Filter for default / custom expense types
Edit custom expense type
Customize an icon for a custom expense type
Migration of all expense types of type “Other” to be custom expense types
Whomever takes this, if we get this far, please check with David Trapp before completing.
Shouldn’t have
Other context
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For farmExpenseType, should use the existing convention around NULL or populated farm_id as to whether the type belongs to a specific farm or is universal
V1.0 has an “Other” type that should be removed in favour of documenting custom expense types. Ideally, each of these would be migrated to be custom expense types for the farm where they are created.
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SELECT DISTINCT note FROM "farmExpense" WHERE expense_type_id = '7ce971b4-1590-11ea-9019-22000b628b95' |
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Discussion on -
Decision to retain “Miscellaneous” described here:Investigation into "Other" category of expense types
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For retired expense types:
Retiring is a soft delete
Retired expense types must…
Not be selectable on the multi-select expense type view for new expenses created post-retirement
Still appear as a potential filter (with some sort of visual treatment, e.g. “Mechanical (retired)”) elsewhere in Finances V2V1.05
Continue to show up as a category in reports, lists, tables elsewhere in Finances V2V1.05
Previously created expenses of the retired type must…
These treatments☝️ are not in scope for this epic, but are helpful in framing future work in the Finances V2V1.0 module5 module.
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When creating a new expense type, we should …
Check if the exact name and farm_id exist in the database and if so, don’t POST a new one but just set delete = FALSE
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Should we have a separate section for retired expense types where they can be “un-retired”?
Not initially. We’ll do a check a few months after releasing this feature to see if that is a use case we need to support.