Include scheduled transaction amount when viewing "Entire Budget Year" Budget (Q Mac)

Chris_QPW said:

I think you are misunderstanding the request.  It isn't the budget numbers that are changed, they stay the same.  It is the future actual values that are changed.

Thanks, @Chris_QPW for showing examples from Quicken windows. (Always appreciated by us Mac-only users). But I did understand the request. Or rather, I was responding to the post by @MoMoney99, not the original post by @jshaf at the top of the thread. It wasn't clear to me that @MoMoney99 was talking about Actuals or Budget values, and was saying they'd need to re-enter all their scheduled transactions. That's why I asked whether the question was about including scheduled transactions in Budget or Actual values. For Actuals, I wrote that it wouldn't be necessary to re-enter on the budget screen, because the Actuals would update once the scheduled transactions were posted. I'm sorry if my reply on that wasn't clear or confused the issue. 

Bottom line: as we've established in this thread, Quicken Mac does not include scheduled transactions in Actuals; they only show up once the scheduled transactions are posted. Quicken Windows has an option to include scheduled transactions in Actuals or not.

Since this is an Idea thread @jshaf created, the best way to get such an option in Quicken Mac would be for users interested in this functionality to add their vote at the top of this thread. I'd note that it has so far received only two votes over the past four months, so it's not something that will be pushed to the development team unless it garners more votes. (Of course, it may already be on the developers' roadmap, as there are a number of enhancement requests related to budgets which they haven't yet tackled and will likely be tackled together.)

Just adding two notes to this feature request:

(1) It is a feature which already exists in Quicken Windows. It is explained in this post in a Quicken Windows discussion:

(2) There was a previous Idea thread for this feature which apparently did not receive enough user votes for consideration and was archived. Users who want to see this functionality need to add their votes to this topic meets the threshold for the developers to consider it.

@jshaf said: Oh my Gosh, how long does this take when the windows version has had it for more than a decade???

There are hundreds of feature requests, and the small Mac development team can only implement a few things at a time — so the answer is that it can take a long time! 😉 The reason for these Idea threads is to allow users to vote for the features they would find desirable, and to feed those votes to the developers to guide their prioritization of feature requests.

In this case, after three-and-a-half years, this thread has attracted only 18 votes. Other features have many times that number; some have multiple hundreds of votes. So other requests with many more votes are more likely to be implemented before this one. This thread needs at least 30 votes for it to be forwarded to the developers for their assessment for implementation.

That said, there are a number of budget features which have a lot of votes and are marked as "Planned" by the developers. None have been implemented yet, suggesting that they will, at some unknown time, do a major re-write of the budget part of the program in order to add the features they have indicated are "Planned" — and when they do that, they may pick up other budget functionality requests to incorporate into the scope of that project. (But it would help if this thread reached 30 votes.)

the votes are worthless and don't mean anything.

I'll disagree. Many of the features which have been implemented over the past few years are things users asked for and voted for. Just because the one feature you are waiting for hasn't been implemented does not mean "the votes are worthless and don't mean anything."

The Romans built the coliseum in 7-8 years

And how many thousands of slaves did they use to accomplish this? Compare and contrast to a small team of fewer than a dozen Quicken Mac programmers. 🤣

the only updates I see coming from this Mac team is more ways to track investments and dashboards that I don't use.

It's unfortunate that among all the features added over 4 years, you only found a single one which was useful. I've found many. And I also have a long list of features I strongly want to see, and continue waiting for.

Again, I'd note that this feature request has only received 18 votes over 3+ years. It clearly isn't something a lot of users are clamoring for. But hopefully it will get included anyway when they do the major re-write of the budget portion of the program.

Just to be clear, I wasn’t saying your request is unimportant; I was only noting that it hadn’t garnered enough votes yet to be sent to the developers for their consideration. I’m sorry you find that “amusing”; I was only trying to offer information which might offer insight into how the process works.