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Disbursements and Receipts time filters don't all make sense #725

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leahbannon opened this issue Sep 21, 2015 · 2 comments
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Disbursements and Receipts time filters don't all make sense #725

leahbannon opened this issue Sep 21, 2015 · 2 comments

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From @jwchumley

The Disbursement date options are a problem. "Today" and "This Month" will always be null because filing deadlines covering this month are at best next month. "This Quarter" will always be 0 for quarterly filers and will alwasy miss the third month in the quarter for monthly filers. Sometimes the second month will be missing too. The data in this system are not real time.

In the Filter Receipts column, "Receipt Date" section some of the options don't make sense.
"Today" Will never yield results because the report covering today won't be filed until next month if it is a monthly and as many as three months from now if Quarterly.
"This Month" has similar issues. All regularly scheduled reports covering a given month are filed with us the following month or quarter so we can't display the data for this month until next month when it is no longer this month. There are some exceptions. Pre Generals typically cover the first few weeks of October and are filed toward the end of October. Probably some Pre Specials as well but these exceptions are few.

@leahbannon leahbannon changed the title Disbursements time filters don't all make sense Disbursements and Receipts time filters don't all make sense Sep 21, 2015
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Today is gone. Need to figure out This Month. Possibly "Last Month" and "Last Quarter"?

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For now, @noahmanger please remove "This Month" and "This Quarter" and add "This Cycle."

@onezerojeremy please do some user research/testing on what would help people most

jmcarp added a commit to jmcarp/openFEC-web-app that referenced this issue Sep 27, 2015
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