Mobile App: Don't cut off Category Names when searching the Categories list on transactions

Flopbot

Greetings,

When entering receipts and categorizing transactions, this has been bugging me more and more.

For background, I do 99% of my receipt entry on my phone just because it's easier.

When you first select Categories, it displays like this. You can scroll up and down the list to find what you want. This layout makes sense and lets me easily visualize - reminds me of - my category tree.

However, when you search for a category, it does this. While this might be okay on a wide computer, on small screens, it pushes most of the category name off the side of the screen and I end up guessing at the ending. Yes, I could be less verbose, but I'd much rather that the sorted results just be displayed in the same way as the screenshot above - with two levels. To me, it makes sense for it to show the parent category at the top and then any subcategories with the search term underneath the parent. Granted, you'd run into times when the search term isn't in the parent name and in those cases, I'd still want it displayed.

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asheroto

Did they integrate this fix?

RobWilk

This, to me, seems like a bug, and the fix appears to be to enable line/word wrapping. I would say it seems like an easy fix, but for example it might alter the height of the space reserved for each line (even still, it should be an easy fix). The only reason i haven't voted for it yet is because it doesn't affect me, but I think it should be corrected.

Flopbot

@asheroto , this has not yet been fixed. It is still a problem and is still annoying. Here’s a more recent example in my mobile phone. When entering receipts, I have two similarly named categories…

When I search for “Groceries” on my iPhone SE with a small screen, I get this…

Note that the ending ”on CC” text is completely hidden so I have a 50-50 chance of selecting the right one.

asheroto

You have an iPhone, right? I have an Android and the issue also occurs on there.

The first screen looks great. It really just needs to filter that screen, rather than a new list where the text is cut off.

Flopbot

@asheroto ,
Correct, I do have an iPhone. My first screenshot in the post immediately above this is from Settings > Categories.

This is what the default, “waiting” screen looks like when you first click into a category when entering receipts. If Simplifi could just filter this list in the same stacked format, I would think that would be ideal.

From a design perspective, this would also be less jarring for the user having to navigate a transition from reading one format/layout to another.

DannyB

I voted this up as I want to support my fellow users with extensive category structures and work on smallmscreens.

Flopbot

I just noticed that this is made even worse by the addition of “Personal:” being appended to each one…a result of QBP. I cross posted this to the QBP forum.