Invalid dashboard ID: 0

[crashmoney]

Hi! Thanks for developing fava-envelope, I've been searching for a solution to envelope budgeting in beancount.

I had trouble downloading fava-envelope from pip, since I'm on a Mac using Homebrew; I downloaded the entire repo as-is and compiled from source using pip install -e . in a virtual environment.

For any other Mac users unable to install, my issue turned out to be outdated bison. The install worked, but threw errors in Fava. Only compiling the latest dev version worked.

Fava is able to recognise and use the envelope budgeting, and the file has been set up appropriately as below:

2000-01-01 custom "fava-extension" "fava_envelope" "{}"

2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "start date" "2026-01"
2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "months ahead" "2"

2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:Checking:Bank"

2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Food:*" "Expenses:Food"
2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Social:*" "Expenses:Social"
2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Family:*" "Expenses:Family"

2026-01-02 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Expenses:Social" 40.00 USD
2026-01-02 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Expenses:Family" 25.00 USD
2026-01-02 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Expenses:Art" 26.00 USD
2026-01-02 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Expenses:Entertainment" 15.00 USD

Running fava results in this error:

Loading /beancount/extension/EnvelopeBudget/ failed with error:
HTTP 500 - invalid dashboard ID: 0, maybe no budgets defined<script type="application/json" id="page-title">"Error"</script><script type="application/json" id="ledger-mtime">1767927731286374485</script>

My operating currency is USD, though I have the occasional transaction in my journal in another currency that isn't declared as operating.

Version information:

• Python: 3.14.2
• bison: 2.3
• Fava: 1.30.9
• Beancount: 3.2.0
• fava-envelope: Latest commit on this repo

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated – thank you!

[podiki]

I get the same error on current commit (with change noted as needed for Beancount 3 in #104), following the readme instructions. However, the example beancount file does work, or at least doesn't error out.

[crashmoney]

@podiki Thanks so much for the tip!! I finally got it working by ripping this from the example.beancount:

2010-01-01 custom "fava-extension" "fava_envelope" "{
    'budgets': [
        {
            'name': 'USD',
            'currency': 'USD',
            'start date': '2025-01',
            'budget accounts': [
                'Assets:Checking:Bank'
            ],
            'mapping': []
        },
    ],
}"

Replacing this with the README example gets it working perfectly, though it does display this message (doesn't seem to affect functionality): "The querytable macro is deprecated, please switch to the frontend-rendered query result. See fava.ext.fava_ext_test for an example of how to use them."

[podiki]

You are welcome, though not sure how well it was working (I didn't see a proper budget but didn't try much); I'm trying out a more active fork I saw for now: https://github.com/memst/fava-envelope

[crashmoney]

@podiki That happens to be the fork I compiled myself, though I still ran into the same error. Numbers aren't showing up correctly (something I allocated would be blank), but at least the extension is showing up and I can try to debug now :)

[podiki]

I'll leave you to it or to followup on the fork if that's what you are using. I did notice they had changes there to some format and requirements (in readme/changelog). Good luck to us both :)

[crashmoney]

@podiki We can follow up on the fork :) If you have a Mastodon, I'm @crashmoney@sunny.garden there. In terms of the format, it doesn't look like the fork changed much

[crashmoney]

@podiki Someone on Mastodon (@stenius) has made an amazing fork packed full of new features! You'll have to reformat a little from the README on this main repo, but it's a pretty easy adjustment. Just pip install fava-envelope-airmail since the author's now put it up on PyPi: https://github.com/stenius/fava-envelope-airmail

I've been using this for a few days with zero issues :) Hope it helps you too!