Calculate budgets across projects

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Alex Wilson

• November 18, 2014 02:46

Hi I am trying to figure out how to make an expense app collect the cost of several types of different projects. Lets say I have project - a that is $5,000 and project - b that is $17,500 which are both classified as "admin projects". Is there a way to make an expense app that will add that value and keep track as I make projects with different classifications?

Essentially I want to calculate these values based on project cost (not hours worked).

Thank you!

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  Stefan Ukena

  • November 18, 2014 09:52

  Hi Alex,

  what do you mean by "collect" in your first sentence? How are the projects "collected" in the expense app? Do you have expense-items that (manually) reference projects? I.e. do you have an app-reference field that relates the expense app and the projects app? If so, this is totally doable using JavaScript.

  If not, you could also try using a view. In your projects app you could sum project values by project category.

  Best,
  Stefan

  http://www.diekollaborateure.com/go/podio/help

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  Alex Wilson

  • November 18, 2014 12:03

  Thanks Stefan!

  This may be a dumb questions but how do I add Javascript to my apps?

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  Stefan Ukena

  • November 18, 2014 16:41

  Hi Alex,

  you simply add a calculation field to your app template and enter the JavaScript there. But be aware that this is server-side JavaScript, so not everything that is supported in a browser is available.

  Here is a link to the Podio help article on calculations:
  https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/articles/201019358-Calculations

  Best,
  Stefan

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