[grisbi-user] Creating budgets from previous years transactions?

[Barrie Treloar]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Martin Stromberger <fabiolla at gmx.at> wrote:
> Hi,
> Grisbi has no budgetary functionallity. Budgetary-lines are a nothing more
> than a 'second kind of categories' for grouping different categories.
> I' had the same requirement = budget and compare with 'real data'. Because
> Grisbi has no budgetary functionallyit I've solved it for my needs with an
> OpenOffice Spread-Sheet.
> The solution in detail is an export from Grisbi with a report and an
> import to OpenOffice with a macro. In OpenOffice I've three sections
>
> Section 1: The imported data from grisbi
> Section 2: The buget self (based in historical data from grisbi)
> Section 3: A compare from imported data with budget
>
> I'm working with a cvs-snapshot (0.6 beta) and this version has also no
> budgetary functionallity but since version 0.6 it is possible to extend
> grisbi with plugins - maybe some will write a budgetary plugin....

Thanks.
That explains a lot.