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| [[User:Woozle|Woozle]]: Projects: '''HyperMoney'''
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| [[HyperMoney]] is my attempt to write a money-management program (as in Quicken or Microsoft Money) that is actually usable and has no Stupid Features. It will be [[FOSS|Open Source]], as soon as I have source worth publishing (as of 2005-08-06, it's all written in Microsoft Access 97). The next step may be to convert it to web-based application, as HTML could possibly overcome many of the interface design issues I'm encountering. | | [[Category:Software Projects|HyperMoney]] |
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| ==Project Goals==
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| *To avoid shortcomings in existing money manager software: see [[HyperMoney: Flaws in Other Software]]
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| *To minimize the "setup curve", i.e. the amount of preparatory work needed before any useful amounts of data can be entered
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| *To provide all basic functionality needed for the following:
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| **Tracking and balancing one's bank accounts, credit cards, and other basic types of money accounts
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| **Tracking debts and loans involving one or more other parties of varying levels of disorganization (they might or might not send you regular statements or even reliable itemizations)
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| *To make data entry as painless as possible:
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| **Easy identification of redundantly-entered transactions -- so you can Just Start Typing instead of worrying about where you left off last time
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| **Deferred data massaging -- so you can Just Start Typing, and worry about assigning proper accounts and categories to things later; the program should keep track of incomplete data massaging so you can take care of it when you have time
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| ==Data Design==
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| There are two main areas of concern: Accounts and Transactions. All other tables are supporting either or both of those, sometimes mainly for user-friendliness and not part of the core data design. User-friendliness functions include Grouping and Pre-entry (deferred data massaging).
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| ===Acccounts===
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| {| style="background: #eeeeff;"
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| |+'''Accounts''' table
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| !Field||Type||Description
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| |ID||int(4) autonumber
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| |Name||text||short name for account
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| |Descr||text||description and notes
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| |}
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| Accounts are in a hierarchical tree, but this is mainly user-friendliness (though it can also be used for reports). The tree is in a separate table, Topics, and the mapping from Accounts to Topics is in [Account Topics].
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| {| style="background: #eeeeff;"
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| |+'''Account Topics''' table
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| !Field||Type||Description
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| |ID_Acct||int(4)||Accounts.ID
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| |ID_Topic||int(4)||Topics.ID
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| |}
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| ===Transactions===
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| Every transaction consists of one or more [[TransPart]]s associated with a master Transaction record. Inforamation about balances will be stored separately.
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| {| style="background: #eeeeff;"
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| |+'''Trxacts''' table (Transactions)
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| !Field||Type||Description
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| |ID||int(4) autonumber
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| |Descr||text||description of transaction
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| |When||date||date when the transaction occurred, as recorded by user
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| {| style="background: #eeeeff;"
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| |+'''TrxParts''' table ([[TransPart]]s)
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| !Field||Type||Description
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| |ID_Trx||int(4)||Trxacts.ID of master transaction
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| |ID_Acct||int(4)||Accts.ID of account for this part of the transaction
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| |ID_Type||int(4)||TrxTypes.ID of transaction type for this part
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| |ID_Mode||int(4)||TrxModes.ID of transaction mode (source, target, equity, topic)
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| |When||date||date when the transaction occurred, according to the institution hosting the account
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| |Amount||currency||amount of transaction; positive = deposit, negative = withdrawal.
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| *Sum of all source parts plus all target parts must equal zero.
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| *Sum of all equity parts must equal sum of all target parts.
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| |}
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| ===Grouping===
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| {| style="background: #eeeeff;"
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| |+'''Topics''' table
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| !Field||Type||Description
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| |ID||int(4) autonumber
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| |Name||text||short name for topic
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| |Descr||text||longer description of topic (optional)
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| |ID_Parent||int(4)||Topics.ID of parent topic; NULL = this is a root topic
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| |}
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| ==Interface Design==
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| ==Links==
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| *http://braincore.blogspot.com/2005/05/koding-what-am-i-koding-then.html - A Dutch developer discusses accounting software, briefly. Apparently they don't use checkbooks in Holland.
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