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Restarting petrol consumption tracking

Asked by Lindsay Lorden

I've been tracking the petrol usage of our 2nd car for a couple of years. Last December we lent it to family as their car broke down.

Now they have got it repaired, we will be getting our car back and I'd like to restart tracking petrol consumption. Has anyone dealt with this situation? I suspect I need to create a new subcategory for this, or does someone know a tricky "MEMO" or other coding I can do that won't throw up weird values within the Vehicle Cost Report.

Creating a test fill-up entry for when we get it back shows I'd get a line that reports I did all the Kms they did using just fuel showing on the next fill-up (as I expected).
Example: I entered a potential sample transaction which resulted in the report showing ....

Date Meter Fuel Price Amount Dist. 100 km km/l
27/02/24 133458 km 20.40 l $ 2.98 $ -60.98 9081 km 0.22 l 445.9 km

This I suspect means I need a new sub-category going forward (or rename the current to "xxx .. pre2024" then recreate the current name), unless someone knows a trick to being able to use the existing category.

Thanks.

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Lindsay Lorden (ludwigwn) said : 		#2

I'm using HomeBank's inbuilt Vehicle Cost feature to do it.

I think I'll rename the existing ('previous') transaction category as "catname - pre24" and recreate the "catname" for my new transactions.

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Lindsay Lorden (ludwigwn) said (last edit ): 		#3

Seems there's only one solution, with two ways to achieve it -

Step A:
1. Start a new category, leaving current one alone.

-- or --

2. Rename the existing category, which will re-categorise all current current transactions. Then recreate the original.

Step B:
Mark the "old" category as 'closed' (toggle the 'Show/Hide' flag in Manage Categories) to avoid accidental use in the future.

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Lindsay Lorden (ludwigwn) said (last edit ): 		#5

Thanks for the post, but given this is a question is posted under the HomeBank software, you can definitely assume this is what I'm using to do my tracking. Refer to entry #2 above, dated 2024-03-07.

I not looking at/for any 'other' software to do it.