UNLV-ShaneD/unlvCS473kilo — Issue #4: Possible use case - comparing projections by sets of item adjustments
Author: UNLV-ShaneD
Created: 2012-02-29 05:51:11+00:00
State: open

In retrospect, filtering items may not be helpful in decision making. It may be more useful to compare two or more options (which would create two or more different plots).

One way of achieving this is to have different sets of item adjustments.
You can have a set of item adjustments for the status quo. Then, you can have a set of adjustments that includes, for example, eliminating all income and fuel items. Then, a set of adjustments that simply cuts income items by half.
The three sets of adjustments would then be projected and plotted on the same chart.

This use case has most impact on tagging, item managing, and charting. It makes managing item adjustments a bit more complex - but the added functionality may be well worth it. To reduce scope, we can take away filtering from the charting and projecting jobs as they do not seem all that useful. As the system is now, if they wanted to compare two sets of adjustments, they would have to redefine all of the affected adjustments for each scenario (not fun).