Inline calculator for amount fields | Voters

Inline calculator for amount fields

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Bradley Bernard

So you can input: 3 + 4 and it will compute the math for you, so you can be more efficient and not leave the web app to do splits math when needed.

January 1, 2024

Bradley Bernard

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Bradley Bernard

Hey all, quick question here: where would you

expect

to use this inline calculator feature (if it existed), so I could understand more about the request?

IE:

Expense modal total amount?
Expense modal receipt type?
In a manual split?

Please share if you have a use case :)

Brandon Rothweiler

Bradley Bernard Personally, I would expect this feature to work on any field that accepts a monetary amount as input. If it only worked on certain amount fields, I think that would be confusing. However, the place where I'd use it most frequently would be the expense modal total amount field.

The most common use case is when I have 2 or more transactions that I want to enter into the app as a single transaction. This feature would help to easily sum the amounts.

Jonathan Gratton

I agree with Brandon Rothweiler. I would expect any $ amount field to have this functionality. I would also expect more complex calculator functions, such as brackets/multiplication/division, to work as well. 
Eg: ((10.00)x1.13)+((54/2)x1.13)
However, I'd personally use it most frequently in the split adjustment and manual fields.

Bradley Bernard

Brandon Rothweiler: Agreed! The q was more to spur use cases. Not planning to have it only select places, no worries :)

Makes sense, thanks for sharing!

Bradley Bernard

Jonathan Gratton: Definitely more complicated to get that all to work out, but I'll see what I can do!