Tiller Money Labs Roundup 10/16/20 - Rename Category + Menu Shortcuts

[randy]

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In honor of Spreadsheet Day (Eve), we’ve just published a few Tiller Money Labs improvements!

Rename Category

A month ago, we released a Merge Categories workflow for users of the Savings Budget. I received some great feedback from @aronos about a few bugs.

When I dug into those bugs today, I realized that it wouldn’t be too hard to expand the Merge Categories workflow to include Rename-Category functionality— a feature request dating back to the early days of Tiller Money. I added the workflow this morning.

As with the Merge Categories workflow, the Rename Category workflow:

• Recategorizes all transactions from source to destination category in the Transactions sheet
• Renames the category in the Categories sheet
• Updates AutoCat rules using the source category
• Reclassifies all savings/budget modifications in the Savings Budget Budget Journal sheet (if present)

The Rename Category workflow should work well for all Tiller-money-spreadsheet users (not just Savings Budget users).

Give it a try and please let me know if there are any surprises…

Add-on Menu Shortcuts

Based on some feedback (in this community) about the number of clicks required to get to frequently-used menus & workflows, we have added shortcuts to common menus directly in the Google Sheets Add-on menu.

[Brad.warren]

@randy:
These are sensational improvements. This morning, I renamed a category then consolidated it with another. All outcomes worked as expected across Tiller. Flawless!

The addition of the menus for shortcuts are very intuitive and helpful.

Thanks for all.

[randy]

Really glad to hear that, @brad.warren. I do my best with testing but nothing matches a real-world data set.