Customizable Columns in the Spending Plan (edited)

EL1234

I'm not sure if this is a bug but I would like to see the Notes and Reviewed columns when I click on a Spending Plan (or a category of Other Spending) to view its transactions.

I can click the gear icon to select the fields I want, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

My settings:

The columns I see:

Thanks!

RobWilk

That gear icon is going away soon, @Coach Natalie recently announced. I would vote for the ability to add the notes field, but not necessarily the 'reviewed' one.

Coach Natalie

Thanks for posting your request, @EL1234!

As mentioned by @RobWilk, the gear icon shouldn't be in the Spending Plan. We had originally reported the column selections not changing anything as a bug (see here), but our Product Team determined that the Spending Plan shouldn't have customizable columns, so they're removing the gear icon to avoid confusion.

With that said, I love that we now have an Idea post requesting customizable columns in the Spending Plan so users can vote on this ability! I went ahead and edited the title to cover customizable columns in general so we can get a thorough idea of what users would like to see as far as this functionality goes.

For anyone interested in customizable columns in Reports or Watchlists, we have existing requests for these as well! 😀

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/940/customizable-columns-in-reports-include-notes-column-edited

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/718/customizable-columns-in-watchlists-edited

-Coach Natalie

EL1234

I'd really like to be able to customize those columns, it would make looking through the spending plan less frustrating if I can see which transactions are reviewed and which may be categorized incorrectly and should be looked at.

Notes would be very helpful also! But to me Reviewed is more important. I see that different people could prefer different columns - that's why they should be customizable!

EL1234

Alternately, thought not as preferable, if you don't want to add that ability to spending plan, maybe there could be a button to "view and edit these transactions" which would take you straight to the transactions list, or a report, filtered to show the same transactions I was looking at in the spending plan (ie: by date and category/ies).

EL1234

I just ran into this again. When looking at a category in the spending plan (either planned or other spending), I want to see which transactions were reviewed so I can see if I indeed spent that much in that category or if something needs to be moved to another category.

It would also be an easy way to review transactions for this month one category at a time. The way I do it currently is very cumbersome - I go to Transactions, filter by Not Reviewed, and then need to filter one category at a time from the full list of categories. If I could do it one by one by clicking on the spending category bubbles it would be fewer steps since I'd only need to choose the categories that actually have transactions for this month.

Viewing the full transaction list (filtered by Not Reviewed) and sorting by category won't work since then it shows all transactions from all time, and I just want to view one month's worth a time but we cannot filter the Transactions list by date (another idea I'd really like).

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/359/need-a-select-all-and-date-range-filter-edited

JLQ

Posting here as suggested by a help coach.

In the Transaction view, it is possible to customize which column is visible. This is not possible however in the Spending Plan page when displaying the transactions for "other spending".

Having the capability to display additional columns here (e.g. "notes") would be very helpful.

I hope it can be implemented

PS: initially posted in the wrong category

Jeff D.

Any time transactions are listed, display the notes attribute for the transaction. That option is available under the Transaction page, but not under other spending under Spending Plan.

UrsulaA

Interesting decision by the product team to remove customizable columns for transactions on the spending plan. Please add this feature back.

Comment below explaining the product team's decision. This request has my vote and it is one of my bookmarks.

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/17480#Comment_17480

RobWilk

@UrsulaA I know you weren't here at the time, but to give a brief 'what you missed' — There never were customizable columns in anything other than the account register. However, there was an option to set custom columns, which never worked. They took the non-functioning option away rather than make it work.

UrsulaA

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/30312#Comment_30312

Thanks for the history. Makes sense.

RobWilk

It's difficult to believe only seven people (myself already included) want customizable columns here… I guess that hiding the option makes it less obvious that it 'should' be there. When it was there, a lot more users seemed to want it to work right.

UrsulaA

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/30318#Comment_30318

Agreed, I am hoping to get more votes by commenting and digging it out of obscurity. 😊

EL1234

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/30318#Comment_30318

I agree… I scrolled up to make sure that I had already voted, only to discover that I posted this in the first place :)

Definitely something I want! I'm pretty sure I submitted a bug report at some point because adding the Reviewed column didn't actually work.

UrsulaA

I also noticed that the display density setting from the transaction list carried over to the transaction lists below the spending plan, reports, and watchlists. If the developers can find a way to make all the customization from the transaction lists made by the user carry over the spending plan (this request), watchlists, and reports, I will be happy with that arrangement. Then, I know I only need to customize the transaction list to have a consistent view across the app.

RobWilk

That would work for me too.

Abi Pop

Similar to the transaction grid, ability to customize columns in Spending Plan grid (e.g., to add/view the notes column).

Transaction grid:

Spending plan:

KimS

Display transaction notes in the "Other Spending" section of the Spending Plan 

guypersondudeman

Here's what's broken about the current experience. "Why is $120 being spent on Apple and being categorized as education?" I can't even see that there's a note with a little dot or icon. I need to click into detail to see my note that it's for such-and-such subscription. Meanwhile the tag field is always empty - I don't use it, so there's this whitespace where my subscription note could go, but I can't customize it.

UrsulaA

This idea looks partially completed. I can add the notes column to the spending plan planned spending and other spending using the steps on the comment below.

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/40319#Comment_40319

Coach Natalie

Hey everyone, great news! Our product team has added the ability to customize the columns in the Spending Plan. You can do so by hovering over one of the column headers, clicking the three dots at the end of it, and then selecting "Manage Columns".

Please note that these settings will not stick when navigating away, however, we are planning to add the ability to save the configuration in a future release.

-Coach Natalie

EL1234

That's exciting news! I don't see the Reviewed column as an option, is that coming soon?

Coach Natalie

@EL1234, I'm not sure. Feel free to create a separate Idea post for the Reviewed Column in the Spending Plan.

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/998/creating-and-voting-for-ideas-in-the-community

Thanks!

-Coach Natalie

EL1234

Thanks @Coach Natalie… It's literally in the original post of this idea request, where I asked for it about a year ago!

UrsulaA

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/40418#Comment_40418

I see the requested for the reviewed field on this request too.

"I'm not sure if this is a bug but I would like to see the Notes and Reviewed columns when I click on a Spending Plan (or a category of Other Spending) to view its transactions."

Can this request be changed to active again with the notes field crossed out and the reviewed column kept on the text of the request?

Coach Natalie

@EL1234 & @UrsulaA, let's go ahead and create a new request for the Reviewed Column specifically so we can gauge how many users would like to see that added. I can then forward it along as feedback for the enhancement that was implemented. 🙂

-Coach Natalie

UrsulaA

The idea is added @EL1234 and @Coach Natalie. Thanks!

Option to Add Reviewed Column in Spending Plan — Simplifi (simplifimoney.com)

EL1234

Thanks - I upvoted that one. Hope it can be added soon as it's actually more important to me than the notes field :)

Here's the link if anyone is looking for it:

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/10141/option-to-add-reviewed-column-in-the-spending-plan-watchlists-and-reports-edited

I would also like to mention that I think that it's unintuitive to have to click the settings for a specific existing column to choose to add/remove columns, and that if it used the same Gear icon as the Transaction list uses to choose columns it would be easier to find.

Coach Natalie

@EL1234, I totally agree on the gear icon! I told them this yesterday. 😁

-Coach Natalie

EL1234

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/40455#Comment_40455

Awesome! Let's hope then :D