DennisBauer
Add "Include in Summary" Flag to Filter Expenses from Totals
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, the Home tab displays three aggregate values (daily, monthly, yearly) summing all defined recurring expenses. There’s no way to opt out specific expenses or one-off payments from these totals, which makes the overview less accurate when you want to focus on a custom subset of items.
Describe the solution you’d like
Add a persistent “Include in totals” field in the expense entry. When this flag is off, that expense would be excluded from the Home summary calculations. Implementation sketch:
- Extend the Expense data class with a Boolean includeInSummary field (default true)
- Update the Room schema and DAO queries to filter on includeInSummary == true
- Expose the toggle in the UI (e.g. in the expense detail screen or long-press menu in the list)
- HomeViewModel’s sum functions would automatically respect the new flag when computing daily/monthly/yearly totals
Describe alternatives you’ve considered, if any
- Manually tagging unwanted expenses in a separate category and mentally subtracting them
- Deleting and re-adding expenses to approximate a custom total, which is error-prone and cumbersome
Additional context
- You’ll need to migrate the database to add the new column and update all DAO methods accordingly
- This feature aligns with the app’s goal of flexible, user-driven reporting
Hi @DennisBauer , I might also try to implement this myself, since I wanted to try out some mobile development. Let me know what you think
@coffeemesh thanks for bringing this up. I never considered that there might be expenses which someone does not want to see in the overview, but I agree with you having the option is fine, just making it true by default. The feature request is similar to #542 in which you can also see the sum of a subset, but it is more meant for a quick temporary filter. Feel free to submit a PR if you like, looking forward to that.
