Bug: Income category is present in Expense transaction. Also Vice versa

[sammieboy97]

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Bug description

Income category is present in Expense transaction. Also Vice versa

To Reproduce

Create Expense Category
Open Transaction tab
Open create new Transaction
Open Income Tab
Click on Category, the Expense category you created will be visible

Expected behavior

Only Income categories should be present inside Income transaction.
Same for expense

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[sammieboy97]

I can take this up to fix if this is not an expected behavior

[zachgoll]

@sammieboy97 good catch, this is not expected behavior. I think we should only show "expense" categories when dealing with expenses as you mention.

[sammieboy97]

I'm taking this up. Will raise a PR soon. Thanks for confirming @zachgoll

[kirill-andr]

@sammieboy97 this would be a very valuable fix as I am also struggling with this one. On a side note, there are a few more bugs that I have noticed around this issue:

• In Home -> Budgets the income categories do not show up for some reason. I can see that XX% of Income came from Salary, but the list of categories in the right column only shows expenses.
• In Account -> Categories -> New Category. When choosing Income, it is possible to select an Expense category as a parent Category. It should only allow Income Categories to be parents of other Income categories. I have checked that it is also possible to have an Income category to be a parent of Expense category.

[javiermartingonzalez]

@sammieboy97 Yes, it's an issue that still present from a while.

Don't forget to check it on CSV import page, when you are assigning categories to the imported data, it is showing all categories for positive and negative amounts.

Also, I don't know if is the expected behaviour, but you are not able to have a category with the same name as income and expense. Sometimes, it could be useful. For example, C2C payments like "Bizum" in Spain could be income or expense (it deppends if you are receiving or sending the payment). Now I have to create 2 categories "Bizum Income" and "Bizum Expense" but with this approach it's hard to automatize the categories based on the concept. So, will be great if you take a look on that and say your comments about that implementation :)

Thank you