Trouble and confusion creating a whittle-down goal

[zedmango]

Ok, so I wanted to create a whittle-down goal, went through the help section, and was horribly confused.

At no point in the goal creation process does it ask for a rate or end date. So after making it I got a road with slope zero.

Then I tried to change the slope/end date with the road editor on the goal page and ran into a very weird bug where a date showed up in the “end value” field, and it wouldn’t let me update. I had to delete that line.

All in all, the process of creating a whittle-down goal is incredibly confusing and clear, and the help docs don’t provide much help.

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I also want to report that this “rate cannot be 0” bug is still there - I also experienced this during the process of goal creation after hitting the “back” button.

whittle-down: rate cannot be 0

I tried to create a whittle-down goal just now and I kept getting this error: [image] I tried multiple times, typing in different values for both text fields, to no avail. Eventually I went back to the “Create a new goal” screen and clicked whittle-down again, entered the same values and it worked. Took me to the next screen.

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[zedmango]

So after completing my whittle-down goal, I restarted it, and was presented with this:

Looks great - why isn’t the user presented with the option for how much to commit to when creating the goal?

@dreev @shanaqui

[shanaqui]

This kind of design question is something I can’t answer.